Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth15 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
wisdom country fun
Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.
wisdom fun evil
It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.
christian peace commitment
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
sleep perspective environmental
We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.
christian materialism problem
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.
and-love nonviolence
We must follow nonviolence and love.
our-world world
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
enemy love-your-enemies loving-your-enemies
Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?
jesus realist idealist
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
mistake hate struggle
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
love-you self order
In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
strong goes-on littles
If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.
jesus hate thinking
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.
hate personality structure
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.