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Martin Luther King Jr. – amerykański pastor baptystyczny, lider ruchu praw obywatelskich, działacz na rzecz równouprawnienia Afroamerykanów i zniesienia dyskryminacji rasowej, laureat pokojowej Nagrody Nobla z roku 1964, człowiek roku 1963 magazynu „Time”. Zamordowany 4 kwietnia 1968 roku przez przeciwników politycznych. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Styczeń 1929 – 4. Kwiecień 1968
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Martin Luther King: 683 cytaty8 Polubień

Martin Luther King słynne cytaty

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Niech żaden człowiek nie sprowadzi cię do tego poziomu, byś go nienawidził.”

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„Na końcu będziemy pamiętać nie słowa naszych wrogów, ale milczenie naszych przyjaciół.”

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. (ang.)

„Niesprawiedliwość gdziekolwiek jest zagrożeniem dla sprawiedliwości wszędzie.”

Martin Luther King Letter from Birmingham Jail

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (ang.)
Źródło: Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963), w: Stride Towards Freedom, 1964.

„Musimy nauczyć się żyć razem jak bracia, jeśli nie chcemy zginąć razem jak szaleńcy.”

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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (ang.)
przemówienie wygłoszone 22 marca 1964 w St. Louis.

„Miłość to jedyna siła, zdolna przekształcić wroga w przyjaciela.”

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. (ang.)

„Nasze życie zaczyna się kończyć w dniu, w którym zaczynamy przemilczać ważne tematy.”

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about thing that matter.

Martin Luther King cytaty

„Jeśli człowiek nie odkrył czegoś, za co jest gotowy umrzeć, nie jest zdolny do życia.”

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If man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. (ang.)
przemówienie wygłoszone 23 czerwca 1963 w Detroit.

„Gdy idę wśród zdesperowanych, odtrąconych i gniewnych młodych mężczyzn, mówię im, że koktajle Mołotowa i strzelby nie są rozwiązaniem. Ale oni wtedy pytają – i słusznie – o Wietnam. Duszę Ameryki zatruwa wojna w Wietnamie. Jeśli naród rok po roku wydaje więcej na zbrojenia niż na programy wyrównywania szans, to zmierza ku duchowej śmierci. Żeby zapewnić stabilność naszych inwestycji wojsko wkracza do Gwatemali, z tego też powodu amerykańskie helikoptery posyła się przeciwko rewolucjonistom w Kambodży, a amerykański napalm i jednostki specjalne zabijają rebeliantów w Peru. Dlatego pytają mnie, czy nasz kraj nie nadużywał przemocy, żeby rozwiązać swoje problemy, żeby wymusić zmiany. I mają rację. Dlatego wiem, że nim skrytykuję za agresję gnębionych mieszkańców gett, wpierw muszę przemówić do największego agresora na świecie – mojego rządu.”

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fragment przemówienia z 1967.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 7

„Inteligencja i charakter – to jest cel prawdziwej edukacji.”

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Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. (ang.)

„Tchórzliwi zapytają: Czy jest to bezpieczne? Oportuniści spytają: czy jest to politycznie poprawne? Próżni zapytają: Czy jest to popularne? Ale świadomi zapytają: Czy jest to słuszne? I nadejdzie czas, gdy ktoś musi zająć pozycję, która nie jest ani bezpieczna, ani polityczna, ani popularna, ale ktoś musi ją zająć, bo jest słuszna.”

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Źródło: Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, 1968

„Wierzę, że ostatnie słowo będzie należeć do nieuzbrojonej prawdy i bezwarunkowej miłości.”

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„Najlepszą drogą do zlikwidowania jakiegokolwiek problemu jest usunięcie jego przyczyny.”

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The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause. (ang.)
Źródło: Stride Towards Freedom, 1964.

„Miarą człowieka nie jest zachowanie w chwilach spokoju, lecz to, co czyni, gdy nadchodzi czas próby.”

Martin Luther King książka Strength to Love

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. (ang.)
Źródło: Strength to Love, 1963.

„Zrób pierwszy krok w wierze. Nie musisz widzieć całej drogi. Po prostu zrób pierwszy krok.”

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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. (ang.)

„Bunt jest językiem niewysłuchanych.”

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A riot is the language of the unheard. (ang.)
Źródło: All Labor Has Dignity, red. Michael K. Honey, Beacon Press, Boston 1963, s. 159.

„Marzę, iż pewnego dnia ten naród powstanie, aby żyć wedle prawdziwego znaczenia swego credo: „uważamy za prawdę oczywistą, że wszyscy ludzie zostali stworzeni równymi”.
Marzę, że pewnego dnia na czerwonych wzgórzach Georgii synowie dawnych niewolników i synowie dawnych właścicieli niewolników będą mogli zasiąść razem przy braterskim stole. (…)
Marzę, iż pewnego dnia moich czworo dzieci będzie żyło wśród narodu, w którym ludzi nie osądza się na podstawie koloru ich skóry, ale na podstawie tego, jacy są.”

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.&quot;<br>I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. (…)<br>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. (ang.) <br class="br">wygłoszone 28 sierpnia 1963 na wiecu w Waszyngtonie. <br class="br">Źródło: americanrhetoric.com/speeches http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

„Nigdy nie zapominaj, że wszystko, co Hitler uczynił w Niemczech, było legalne.”

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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. (ang.)

„Nauczyliśmy się fruwać niczym ptaki na niebie, pływać jak ryby w morzach, ale nie nauczyliśmy się tej prostej sztuki, by żyć ze sobą jak bracia.”

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We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. (ang.)
Źródło: Strenght to Love, 1963

„Znamy upokorzenia, znamy obraźliwy język, zepchnięto nas w otchłań opresji. I zdecydowaliśmy się podnieść, czyniąc protest naszą jedyną bronią. To, że mamy prawo do protestu, przysparza Ameryce ogromnej chwały.
Nawet jeśli codziennie jesteśmy zatrzymywani, wykorzystywani, deptani, to nigdy nie pozwólmy nikomu sprawić, że upadniemy tak nisko, by zacząć go nienawidzić. Musimy użyć oręża miłości. Musimy współczuć tym, którzy nas nienawidzą, i być dla nich wyrozumiali. Musimy uświadomić sobie, że wielu z nich nauczono, by nas nienawidzili, i że ludzie ci nie są w pełni odpowiedzialni za swoją nienawiść. Lecz w naszym życiu stoimy u progu dnia, jesteśmy zawsze tuż przed świtem.”

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w 1956, przemawiając w Montgomery w Alabamie.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 585.

„Jeśli ktokolwiek z was będzie w pobliżu, gdy dożyję swoich dni, wiedzcie, że nie chcę długiego pogrzebu, a jeśli ktoś ma wygłosić mowę, powiedzcie mu, by nie mówił zbyt długo. Powiedzcie mu, by nie wspominał o pokojowej Nagrodzie Nobla - to nie jest istotne. (…) Chciałbym, żeby ktoś wspomniał o dniu, w którym Martin Luther King Jr. próbował oddać swoje życie, służąc innym. Chciałbym, by powiedziano, że tego dnia Martin Luther King Jr. próbował kogoś kochać.”

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Źródło: Marzenie Luthera Kinga http://www.newsweek.pl/felietony/marzenie-luthera-kinga,13106,1,1.html, newsweek.pl, 31 października 2006

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Człowiek, który nie ma niczego, za co mógłby umrzeć, nie nadaje się do życia.”

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Martin Luther King: Cytaty po angielsku

“One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.”

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1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)

“It is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.”

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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

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“One day somebody should remind us that, even though there may be political and ideological differences between us, the Vietnamese are our brothers, the Russians are our brothers, the Chinese are our brothers; and one day we've got to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

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“An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. Every person must decide at some point, whether they will walk in light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment: Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?”

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“Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force … is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.”

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“If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: «He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword». We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: «Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you». This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with the movement. Go home with this glowing faith and this radiant assurance.”

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“The real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness—that's the atomic bomb that we've got to fear today. Problem is with the men. Within the heart and the souls of men. That is the real basis of our problem.”

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“This man was a fool because he failed to realize his dependence on God… this man-centered foolishness is still alive today. In fact, it has gotten to the point today that some are even saying that God is dead.”

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The thing that bothers me about it is that they didn't give me full information, because at least I would have wanted to attend God's funeral. And today I want to ask, who was the coroner that pronounced Him dead? I want to raise a question, how long had He been sick? I want to know whether He had a heart attack or died of chronic cancer. These questions haven't been answered for me, and I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive. There are certain conceptions of God that needed to die, but not God. You see, God is the supreme noun of life; He's not an adjective. He is the supreme subject of life; He's not a verb. He's the supreme independent clause; He's not a dependent clause. Everything else is dependent on Him, but He is dependent on nothing.
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)

“We’ve been in the mountain of war. We’ve been in the mountain of violence. We’ve been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.”

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1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)

“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”

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1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)

“There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”

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1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)

“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”

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1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

“If our nation had done nothing more in its whole history than to create just two documents, its contribution to civilization would be imperishable. The first of these documents is the Declaration of Independence and the other is that which we are here to honor tonight, the Emancipation Proclamation.”

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All tyrants, past, present and future, are powerless to bury the truths in these declarations, no matter how extensive their legions, how vast their power and how malignant their evil.
1960s, Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address (1962)

“Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors, but against oppression.”

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1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)

“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”

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1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)

“A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.”

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1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)

“That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”

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[“Loving Your Enemies,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, King, Jr., Martin Luther, 1957-11-17, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/loving-your-enemies-sermon-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church, http://www.webcitation.org/6x5ROMlxu, 2018-02-08]
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)

“And there is another way to rise above self-centeredness and that is by having the proper inner attitude toward your position or toward your status in life or whatever it is. You conquer self-centeredness by coming to the point of seeing that you are where you are today because somebody helped you to get there. And so many people, you see, live a self-centered, egocentric life because they have the attitude that they are responsible for everything and for their position in life. For everything they do in life, they feel, somehow, that they are responsible and solely responsible for it.”

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1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)

“Now, we can say to a certain extent that persons in this situation are persons who have really never grown up. They are still children, at a point. For you see, a child is inevitably, necessarily egocentric. He is a bundle of his own sensations, clamoring to be cared for. And, to be sure, he has his own social context. He belongs to his mother, but he cares for her only because he wants to be fed and protected. He does not care for his mother for her sake but he cares for his mother for his own sake. And so a child is inevitably egocentric, inevitably self-centered. And that is why Dr. Burnham says that during the first six or seven years of development, the ego is dominant within the child. And both in behavior and in attitudes, a child is a victim of self-centeredness. This is a part of the early development of a little child. When people become mature, they are to rise above this.”

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1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)

“So far, only the judicial branch of the government has evinced this quality of leadership. If the executive and legislative branches of the government were as concerned about the protection of our citizenship rights as the federal courts have been, then the transition from a segregated to an integrated society would be infinitely smoother. But we so often look to Washington in vain for this concern. In the midst of the tragic breakdown of law and order, the executive branch of the government is all too silent and apathetic. In the midst of the desperate need for civil rights legislation, the legislative branch of the government is all too stagnant and hypocritical. This dearth of positive leadership from the federal government is not confined to one particular political party. Both political parties have betrayed the cause of justice. The Democrats have betrayed it by capitulating to the prejudices and undemocratic practices of the southern Dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed it by capitulating to the blatant hypocrisy of right wing, reactionary northerners. These men so often have a high blood pressure of words and an anemia of deeds.”

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1950s, Give Us the Ballot (1957)

“Ghana has something to say to us. It says to us first, that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it. … Freedom is never given to anybody. For the oppressor has you in domination because he plans to keep you there, and he never voluntarily gives it up. And that is where the strong resistance comes. Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance.”

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1950s, "The Birth of a New Nation" (1957)

“We believe firmly in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action. In fact, I can see a necessary relationship. If one is truly devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the earth of social evils. The gospel is social as well as personal.”

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Źródło: Stride Toward Freedom (1958); also quoted in The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1982), by Stephen B. Oates, pp. 81-82 note: 1950s

“Education does have a great role to play in this period of transition. But it is not either education or legislation; it is both education and legislation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. 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 also. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless, and this is what we often so and we have to do in society through legislation. We must depend on religion and education to change bad internal attitudes, but we need legislation to control the external effects of those bad internal attitudes. And so there is a need for meaningful civil right legislation.”

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Address at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa (15 October 1962) https://news.cornellcollege.edu/dr-martin-luther-kings-visit-to-cornell-college/; also quoted in Wall Street Journal (13 November 1962), Notable &amp; Quotable , p. 18 <br class="br">Variant: <br class="br">It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important. <br class="br">Address at Finney Chapel, Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as reported in &quot;When MLK came to Oberlin&quot; by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008) <br class="br">1960s

“This is no day for the rabble-rouser, whether he be Negro or white.We must realize that we are grappling with the most weighty social problem of this nation, and in grappling with such a complex problem there is no place for misguided emotionalism. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter. I know how we feel sometime. There is the danger that those of us who have been forced so long to stand amid the tragic midnight of oppression — those of us who have been trampled over, those of us who have been kicked about — there is the danger that we will become bitter. But if we will become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns, the new order which is emerging will be nothing but a duplication of the old order.”

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1950s, Give Us the Ballot (1957)

“There is also the danger that our system can lead to tragic exploitation. We must come out of the mountain and be concerned about a more humane and just economic order. And I say, this afternoon, that we cannot solve this problem byturning to Communism. Communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept. I do believe that in America we must use our vast resources of wealth to bridge the gulf between abject, deaden-ing poverty and superfluous, inordinate wealth. God has left enough space in this universe for all of his children to have the basic necessities of life.”

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1960s, Keep Moving from this Mountain (1960)

“It is interesting to notice that the extreme pessimist and the extreme optimist agree on at least one point. They both feel that we must sit down and do nothing in the area of race relations. The extreme optimist says do nothing because integration is inevitable. The extreme pessimist says do nothing because integration is impossible. But there is a third attitude that can be taken, namely the realistic position. The realist in this area seeks to combine the truths of two opposites, while avoiding the extremes of both, and so the realist would agree with the optimist that we have come a long, long way in grappling with this problem, but he would balance that by agreeing with the pessimist that we have a long, long way to go before the problem is solved in the United States. And it is this realistic position that I would like to use as a basis for our thinking together as we think of progress and as we think of the future of integration.”

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1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)

“It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some thin rationalization to clothe the obvious wrong in the beautiful garments of righteousness. The philosopher-psychologist William James used to talk a great deal about the stream of consciousness. He says that the very interesting and unique thing about human nature is that man had the capacity temporarily to block the stream of consciousness and place anything in it that he wants to, and so we often end up justifying the rightness of the wrong. This is exactly what happened during the days of slavery. Even the Bible and religion were misused to crystallize the patterns of the status quo. And so it was argued from pulpits across the nation that the Negro was inferior by nature, because of Noah’s curse upon the children of Ham. The apostle Paul’s dictum became a watchword: Servants, be obedient to your master. And then one brother had probably studied the logic of the great philosopher Aristotle. You know Aristotle did a great deal to bring into being what we know as formal logic, and he talked about the syllogism, which had a major premise and a minor premise and a conclusion. And so this brother could put his argument in the framework of an Aristotelian syllogism. He could say, All men are made in the image of God. This was the major premise; then came the minor premise: God, as everybody knows, is not a Negro. Therefore, the Negro is not a man. This was the type of reasoning that prevailed.”

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1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)

“The whole nation has come a long, long way in extending the frontiers of civil rights. If we are true to the facts, we must admit this. Twenty-five years ago, a year hardly passed when numerous Negroes were not brutally lynched by some vicious mob in the South. Today lynchings have about ceased. Twenty-five years ago, most of the states in the South had what was known as a poll-tax. The poll-tax system was cleverly contrived to keep many, many Negroes from becoming registered voters. Today the poll-tax has been eliminated in all but four states. And just a few weeks ago, Congress unanimously passed a bill amending the Constitution calling for an end to the poll-tax in all federal elections.”

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1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)

“If I stopped at this point, I would be merely stating a fact, and not telling the truth. You see, a fact is merely the absence of contradiction, but truth is the presence of coherence. Truth is the relatedness of facts. Now it is a fact that we’ve come a long, long way, but it isn’t the whole truth. In order to tell the truth, it would be necessary to add the other part, and I’m afraid that if I stopped at this point, I would leave you the victims of a dangerous optimism. If I stopped here, I would leave you the victims of an illusion wrapped in superficialities. So in order to tell the truth, it is necessary to move on and not only say that we’ve come a long, long way, but that we’ve a long, long way to go before the American dream is a reality, before this problem is solved.”

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1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Fotografia
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Francisco Franco Fotografia
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