This is a video of MLK's last speech (along with a short excerpt of a Robert Kennedy speech), before his untimely death in 1968. It has been said that King could read a 20 minute sermon then deliver that speech a mere 5 minutes later. Here are a few of his quotes for you to ponder this following week as well as a free event offered by a Portland Institution commemorating the Day:
-A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
-A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
-An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
-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.
-Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
-Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
-Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
-Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
-Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
-The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
-The time is always right to do what is right.
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