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Letter "M" » Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
«Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Hope,
Prejudice,
Racism
| Keywords:
brotherhood, pass away, racial, racial prejudice, radiant, scintillating
«I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
brother-in-law, brother, his brother, in-law, The White, white man
«The Negro will only be truly free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive selfhood his own emancipation proclamation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
assertive, depths, emancipation, ink, Negro, pen, proclamation, proclamations, reaches, signs
«If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Future,
Generations,
Struggle,
Violence
| Keywords:
bitterness, desolate, desolated, desolating, legacy, recipients, reign, succumb, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs, unborn
«There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
bog, bogged, bogs, breadth, breadths, devoid, devoid of, in breadth, tragic
«A right delayed is a right denied.»
«Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, dominating, gnaws, hellhound, inferiority, moment of truth, Negroes, remind, waking
«One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
battlefield, casualties, Great Society, in Vietnam, shoot down, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Death and dying,
Relationships,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Brothers and Sisters, physical death, redemptive, sisters
«A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Diplomacy,
Military,
Nations
| Keywords:
approaching, continues, defense program, programs, spiritual death, uplift, uplifted, uplifting, uplifts
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