Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
Martin Luther King, Jr.But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.
Martin Luther King, Jr.We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.