Luther King
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This document contains excerpts from speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. advocating for racial equality and justice. It includes King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech where he envisions a future where people "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" and will be able to "join hands as sisters and brothers." The document also shares quotes about serving others regardless of education, keeping people from being lynched through law, and standing up for what matters during challenges.
Luther King
- 1. Martin Luther King. http://beariscool.blogspot.com/ All quotes from Martin Luther King We are not makers of history. We are made by history. .
- 2. I have a dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: " We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal ." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
- 3. I have a dream I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
- 4. I have a dream I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
- 5. I have a dream When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that 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 in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!“ See http://www. dailymotion .com/video/159227 (August 28, 1963)
- 6. Everybody can be great Take the first step in faith. You dot not have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- 7. Law It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- 8. The ultimate measure Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.