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

[Elaine Haglund]

Hi, Janet,

Many thanks for your time and trouble in sending the wonderful quotes!!

Elaine Haglund
Calif. State Univ., Long Beach



On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Janet Morrison wrote:

>
>
> 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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>
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