Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I refuse to accept the idea that the โisnessโ of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal โoughtnessโ that forever confronts him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today โ my own government.
Martin Luther King, Jr.