Favorite MLK Quotes

[Gonolz]

Mine is probably:

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

There are too many mindless sheep in this highly polarized political environment. We need more people who will think about what is actually best for our society.

 

[LuteHawk]

"I look forward to the day when men are judged on the
content of their character and not the color of their skin."

 

[RunRonnieRun]

“I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that we as a people will get to the promised land.”

 

[LesClaypool]

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

 

[Fluffles]

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

 

[billanole]

Mine is probably:

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

There are too many mindless sheep in this highly polarized political environment. We need more people who will think about what is actually best for our society.

Can’t say I was aware of this one. Thanks.

 

[Wendy79]

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

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I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

 

[Moral]

Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for white people and rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact that is the everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem.

 

[billanole]

Wow. You peeps are killin it. Props to y’all.

 

[Hawkeye_311]

We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for the best in the American dream and the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, and thusly, carrying our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

A very simple and powerful one: “All labor has dignity.”

 

[z_ape]

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.

 

[Pay_county]

Don't believe everything you read on the internet- MLK

 

[noleclone2]

Good one for 2021:

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

 

[Finance85]

"I look forward to the day when men are judged on the
content of their character and not the color of their skin."

This ^

 

[Radar3454]

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'what are you doing for others?'

 

[FSUTribe76]

If I was feeling trolly I’d say it was the encouragement and advice MLK gave as his friend raped a girl in front of him which was recorded by the FBI as part of their surveillance.

But I’m not so I’ll say “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”