The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able. - Martin Luther King Jr
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. - Martin Luther King Jr
The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society. - Martin Luther King Jr
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows - Martin Luther King Jr
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. - Martin Luther King Jr
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. - Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. - Martin Luther King Jr
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. - Martin Luther King Jr
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. - Martin Luther King Jr
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King Jr
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King Jr
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. - Martin Luther King Jr
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. - Martin Luther King Jr
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. - Martin Luther King Jr
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace. - Martin Luther King Jr
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. - Martin Luther King Jr
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