(NAME-MCE) My favorite quotes in honor of Dr. King

Mon Jan 21 11:03:35 EST 2008

"There is nothing essentially wrong with power. The problem is that
American power is unequally distributed."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It may get me crucified. I may even died. But I want it said even if
I die in the struggle that  "He died to make men free."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Sylvea Hollis
Outreach Coordinator
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
520 Sixteenth Street North 
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
(205)328-9696, ext. 246 

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can
go. --- James Baldwin

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The quotes I love are about thoughts King expressed...often very
prophetic. 

  "The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everythign to teach
others and nothing to learn from them is not just."

  "And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five
billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and
twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions
of dollars to put God's children on tehir own two feet right here on
earth."

  "But this is where we are drifting, and we are drifting there,
because nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. I must be
first. I must be supreme. Our nation must rule the world. And I am sad
to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. And
I'm going to continue to say it to America, because I love this
country too much to see the drift that it has taken."

  "We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all
perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment
of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And
whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange
reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought
to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I
ought to be."

  "We know through painful experience that freedom is never
voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the
oppressed."

  "Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to
save our nation and the world? Maybe I must turn my faith to the inner
spiritual church, the church within the church, as the true ecclesia
and the hope of the world. "

  Jesus frequently illustrated the characteristics of the hardhearted.
...Dives went to hell, not because he was wealthy, but because he was
not tenderhearted enough to see Lazarus and because he made no attempt
to bridge the gulf between himself and his brother."

  "We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to
co-operate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in
its evil."

Bill Howe <bill at billhowe.org> wrote:

I love quotes and thought that it might be interesting for subscribers
of the NAME ListServ to share their favorite quotes from Dr. Martin
Luther King in honor of his birthday. Here are just some of them. As I
started to list them, I was struck about how many I liked had to do
with speaking up. I would be very interested in hearing what quotes
others enjoy from Dr. King.

My favorite Martin Luther King quotes:

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."

"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."

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad
people but the silence over that by the good people."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter."

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the
hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street
sweeper who did his job well."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can
keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the
vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling
silence of the good people."

--
Bill Howe

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