Monday, February 16, 2009

Awesome quotes from MLK

  • Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

  • A riot is the language of the unheard.

  • 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.

  • Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  • History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  • I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

  • Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  • Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.

  • Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  • Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

  • The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice.

  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  • Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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