The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
Strength to Love (1963)
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Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
'Letter from Birmingham Jail' in Why We Can't Wait 1963.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
Stride Towards Freedom
Often paraphrased as "One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."
Often paraphrased as "One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
'Letter from Birmingham Jail' in Why We Can't Wait 1963.
We will speed the day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing … “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.”