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

Mon Jan 21 16:15:15 EST 2008

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to
live.

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It
means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means
the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in
their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being
condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father
spiritually 
murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being
hated for being an orphan.

Bill Howe 
http://www.billhowe.org
Travel to China - June 1-14, 2008 - Teachers & Health Care Professionals -
http://www.billhowe.org/China2008.htm

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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

Travel to China - June 1-14, 2008 - 12 nights - (Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin,
Yangshuo & Shanghai) Teachers & Health Care Professionals -
http://www.billhowe.org/China2008.htm > Feb 1 deadline to register.

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