Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The time is always right to do what is right.
We’ve learned to fly the air like birds. We’ve learned to swim the seas like fish. And yet we haven’t learned to walk the earth like brothers and sisters.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
No, violence is not the way. Hate is not the way. Bitterness is not the way. We must stand up with love in our hearts, with a lack of bitterness and yet a determination to protest courageously for justice and freedom in this land.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. So even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. |
a dream of my fellow man not being abducted off the streets by masked men.
ReplyDeleteHow simple is that??? And yet here we are ....
DeleteWow, I forgot to day was a holiday. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteNo problem.
DeleteThat dream is needed today more than ever.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is, around the world.
DeleteMLK was a true visionary.
ReplyDeleteMay your dream be realized.
When will we ever learn...
ReplyDeleteI sometimes doubt we ever will, because we'll keep coming back to this racist notion of America as a white Christian country.
DeleteSadly Donald Duck is doing his best to stomp MLK's dream out of existance.
ReplyDeleteSick fuck, that one.
DeleteThanks for the reminder
ReplyDeleteWe need to remember every day.
DeleteExcellent tribute!
ReplyDeleteWe must try to keep that dream alive.
And act on it!!!
DeleteI hope today will be a good start.
DeleteHis words are as necessary today as they were when he said them for the first time.
ReplyDeleteThere's always hope.
And voting.
XOXO
Without that we truly have nothing.
Deletexoxo
the dog's mother
ReplyDeletexoxo :-)
😀😀😀
DeleteIn accepting his well-deserved and humbly received Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the following lines from the English metaphysical poet, John Donne:-
ReplyDeleteNo man is an Iland, intire of its selfe: every
man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the
maine: if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie
were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends
or of thine owne were: any mans death
diminishes me, because I am involved in
Mankinde: and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.
Two smart men, King and Donne!
DeleteOne day, sweetpea. xoxo
ReplyDeleteI hope so, I really hope so.
Deletexoxo
I, too, still have that dream and that speech still brings me to tears.
ReplyDeleteMe, too!
DeleteRepublicans are being more honest this year, less false claims of him being a republican.. But more direct hatred...
ReplyDeleteTheir racism is quite clear.
DeleteLovely tribute to MLK. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Thank him!
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What a wonderful speech. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteNot a speech, just quotes from MLK.
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