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Martin Luther King Jr. // "Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."
instagram.comChristmas sermon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967.
Quotations - Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (Editor)
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” said Dr. King,32 appealing to white Americans’ pride in their country as the Land of Opportunity and their sense of fairness, and making common cause with them in their hopes fo
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“I believe.” “There are two types of laws,” he shared, “those that are just and those that are unjust. A just law,” Dr. King expounded, “is a man-made code that squares with the moral law. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.… Any law that uplifts the human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality i
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Commitment Card
The pledge outlines ten commitments for nonviolent action in the civil rights movement, including daily meditation, love, service, and following movement instructions for freedom and justice.
minio.la.utexas.edu“Dr. King’s job was to interpret the ideology and theology of non-violence,” said Abernathy. “My job was more simple and down-to-earth. I would tell [people], ‘Don’t ride those buses.’”
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Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. may have understood American Protestantism better than anyone. By staging resistance at the center of ordinary life (again on buses and at diners), he revealed an overwhelming lack of flourishing.