"Let us say boldly, that if the..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.
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“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
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“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”
“On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
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“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”
“I hope I shall never see the daywhen the Force of Rightis deprived of the Right of Force.”
“I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.”