Author of quotes: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We know from bitter experience that the oppressors will never voluntarily give freedom to the oppressed - it is needed! Require.

Another reason why we should love our enemies is that hatred scars the soul and disfigures the person.

An unjust law is not a law at all.

The man who is not ready to give their lives for something that is not ripe for life.

You need to answer hatred with love. Need to meet physical force with soul force... we must carry the nonviolence and love.
We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. ... We must follow nonviolence and love.

You can't escape yourself. It is impossible to divorce yourself. You'll always be in the first place. We talk a lot about that person creates the environment that he's an opportunist. But, in my opinion, people will not be able to anyone to adapt, until you live with yourself.

Forgiveness is not a one-time event, and the world.

I still believe the day will come when people will put swords in the scabbard, put the spears on the wall, the nation will no longer rise up against nation, and never learns wars. I still believe that someday the lamb will lie next to a lion, everyone will sit under his vineyard and under the Fig tree, and no one will be afraid.

God has punished us. Now we either have to be brothers and to survive or die as fools.

I think a white child who learns only with white children, grows a man of narrow views. It develops an unconscious provincialism, which may grow (again, unconsciously) in confidence in their own exceptionalism. A colored, in turn, this situation will provoke an inferiority complex.

We lived half my life with the idea of fighting for their rights, and people kept saying "now is not the time, wait for the right moment." It is very difficult to understand. I literally go out of itself, although well aware that the struggle takes time. But, in my opinion, people who talk like that, really don't want to change anything. To act gradually in their language means "idle", "stand still". May not be "more appropriate" or "less suitable" - it is neutral. We decide how to dispose of them: for good or for harm.

One of the most destructive trends, stretching from time immemorial - it is our habit to avoid moral responsibility. People trying to ignore reality. Wishful thinking, black as white, ugliness - beauty, injustice for granted.

I believe in the ability of the human much more than his life circumstances and ancestry.

We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we open it, we can turn this old world into a new world, because love is the only way.