Quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
- If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Speech in Detroit [June 23, 1963]- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Letter from the Birmingham jail. In the Atlantic Monthly [August 1963]- Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Letter from the Birmingham jail. In the Atlantic Monthly [August 1963]- I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington [August 28, 1963]- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington [August 28, 1963]- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize [December 11, 1964]- I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land...So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Speech at Clayborn Temple, Memphis, Tennessee [April 3, 1968], the evening before his assassination
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