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Direct Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case…
- We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the…
- Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced…
- The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
- In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
- The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition…
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
- The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn…
- We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is…
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