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Marin Luther King was a Baptist minister. While he was a force for changing society for the better. He also spoke to individuals about changing their lives for the better. Rev. King knew that in God's eyes there are no races. In His eyes there only two types of people. Those who have chosen to chosen to walk in a relationship with Him or those who have chosen to reject HIM. Those who reject HIM are still slaves of sin, and those who have invited Him into their lives have been set free by the blood of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord.
Quotes From Dr King
It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.
Was not Jesus an extremist for love -- Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
Was not Amos an extremist for justice -- Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ -- I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Was not Martin Luther an extremist -- Here I stand; I can do none other so help me God.
Was not John Bunyan an extremist -- I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist -- This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.
Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist -- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be.
Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love?
Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill, three men were crucified. We must not forget that all three were crucified for the same crime--the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thusly fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment.
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for the best in the American dream and the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, and thusly, carrying our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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.
This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement 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.
I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. From Rediscovering Lost Values, Feb. 28, 1954
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. From Strength to Love, 1963
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. From a speech given to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Aug. 16, 1967
I just want to do God's will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. From an address given in Memphis the night before his assassination, April 3, 1968
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a 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.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
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