Some great quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr...
- "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated."
- "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction... The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
- "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
- "One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- "Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world."
- "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."
I had difficulty keeping the list this short, because he said so many important things so eloquently. Here are lots more.
- "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated."
- "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction... The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
- "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
- "One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- "Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world."
- "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."
I had difficulty keeping the list this short, because he said so many important things so eloquently. Here are lots more.
posted by howtolive.org at
9:38 AM
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Often asked question: Did Martin Luther King plagiarize most of his writings? He plagiarized a lot of them. An investigation conducted by Boston University, where King got his Ph.D. in theology, determined that he had appropriated roughly a third of his doctoral thesis from a dissertation written three years earlier by another graduate student. Curiously, the same faculty member had been "first reader" of both theses, leading some to wonder whether King's faculty advisers at BU were incompetent or just guilty white liberals who gave a promising young black leader a pass. King also "borrowed" portions of many other writings and speeches, including the famous "I have a dream" speech he gave at the 1963 civil rights rally in Washington.
As every reasonable observer has commented, neither King's sexual wanderings nor his scholarly misdeeds detract from his core achievement. By continually publicizing black grievances while putting a palatable, nonviolent face on resistance to jim crow, King paved the way for the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s and a major turnaround in public attitudes about race. But there's no getting around the fact that he was a complex and deeply flawed man. Was he a great American? No argument here. Was he a fraud and a hypocrite? He was that, too.
--CECIL ADAMS
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Anonymous, at 8:24 PM
In response to the comment above, I believe HowtoLive.org was using Martin Luther King's quotes as reference to great advice and principle and wasn't per se putting MLK himself on any kind of altruistic pedestal. It seems likely that HowtoLive.org would concure with your opinion probably in it's entirety (that is, of course, if it is the genuine truth, which my own research also agrees). But then again a likely guess is that you already knew this and posted so that readers would realize the point made at the end of your last paragraph. It appears likely that readers could learn from an unbiased opinion like yours', or at the least a situation might come up where I could. I enjoyed your post and think you should comment more often.
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ClandestineEnder, at 2:16 PM
Could you please fix the link at the bottom for more quotes? I was excited for more, only to see "page not found!"
Thanks,
a kid
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