01/21/19

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. -Martin Luther King Jr.

05/13/16

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

01/26/12

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" -Martin Luther King Jr.

01/18/12

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice, which make philanthropy necessary. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

11/03/08

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr.

3/04/08

Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?" But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

01/15/08

God has given each person a capacity to reach some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

08/30/07

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. -Martin Luther King, Jr.