"To be Negro in America is to..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
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“A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, 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.”
“The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.”
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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
“We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.”
“Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.”
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“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”
“If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.”
“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.”