What would Martin Luther King say?

 

 

 

 

 

• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

•  He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

•  Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

• I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

• The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

• When you are right you cannot be too radical …