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“Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"”

Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist known for his nonviolent protest and advocacy for equal rights. His 'I Have a Dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 became a significant milestone in the American civil rights movement. more

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“We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

Inspirational Action Community Creative Issues Direct Crisis Tension Consistently Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.”

Inspirational Made Rights My Friends Gains Pressure Determined Civil Rights

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”

Inspirational Giving Long Facts Stories Groups Giving Up Privilege Tragic Privileged

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.”

Inspirational Giving May Light Individual Moral Groups Giving Up Unjust Immoral Posture

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."”

Inspirational Years Waiting Heard Ears Rings Familiarity Piercings Direct Action Civil Right Movement Jurists Justice Denied

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."”

Inspirational Long Justice Yesterday Denied Distinguished Delayed Jurists Justice Denied

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."”

Inspirational Body Jesus Christ Lord Bears Jesus Christ Mark Extremist

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.”

Inspirational Stills Moving Political Nations Goal Horse Independence Speed Coffee Cups Lunch Pace Asia Creeps Coffee Cup Political Independence

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”

Men Inspirational Made Law Moral Harmony Code Squares Unjust Moral Law Unjust Laws

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: