"Let us not seek to satisfy our..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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“The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.”
“There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer”
“We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.”
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“Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.”
“Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.”
“Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.”
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“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”
“Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”