Famous Quotes - Tags - Civil Rights Leader

  • A cheque or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. More
  • Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any... More
  • An American, a Negro ... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals... More
  • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. More
  • Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in... More
  • Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder... More
  • I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop... More
  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be... More
  • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of... More
  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his... More
  • I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted. More
  • I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked... More
  • I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly... More
  • If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth... More
  • If you wake up in the morning and think you’re white, you’re bound to meet someone before... More
  • Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can... More
  • It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s... More
  • It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will... More
  • It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and... More
  • Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and ... when they fail to do this... More
  • My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. More
  • No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than... More
  • No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters... More
  • No, no, we are not satisifed, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters... More
  • Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. More
  • One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the... More
  • Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black and... More
  • Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so... More
  • Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding... More
  • The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it... More
  • The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has... More
  • The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and... More
  • The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. More
  • The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the... More
  • The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. More
  • The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. More
  • The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt... More
  • There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the... More
  • There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. More
  • To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of... More
  • Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a... More
  • We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and... More
  • We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb,... More
  • We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the... More
  • We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the... More
  • We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to... More
  • We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad... More
  • We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. More
  • When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a... More
  • Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body... More

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