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"If
we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the
jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up
the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will
roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. [Sustained
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"I refuse to
accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down
a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger
than evil triumphant. I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts
and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow.
I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing
streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign
supreme among the children of men. I have the audacity to believe
that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies,
education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom
for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn
down men other-centered can build up." --MLK/Nobel Prize Acceptance
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"And one day
we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people
in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are
raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution
of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic
economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin
to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help
the discouraged beggars in life's market place. But one day we must
come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when
you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, "Who owns
the oil?" You begin to ask the question, "Who owns the iron
ore?" You begin to ask the question, "Why is it that people
have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?"
These are questions that must be asked." --MLK/"Where Do
We Go From Here?" (1967).
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"Sooner or
later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live
together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy
into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man
must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
-- MLK/Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1964.
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