Martin Luther Quotes
A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.