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- I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or…
- The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated…
- I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow…
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is,…
- As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon…
- 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…
- We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
- We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from…
- Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
- The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors…
- I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
- Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of…
- The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic,…
- 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…
- The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
- 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…
- I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord"…
- We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It…
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the…
- Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself..
- There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.
- A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It…
- When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,
- Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
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