I want you to be the first in generosity.”ġ1. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. Keep feeling the need for being important. It is a good instinct if you don’t distort it and pervert it. … And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”ġ0. “When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.

We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.” Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.ĩ.

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. We’ve been in the mountain of hatred long enough. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”Ĩ. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. “When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ ”ħ. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”Ħ. “There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”ĥ. “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.”Ĥ. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”ģ. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”Ģ.

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