http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
http://www.africanaonline.com/civil_rights.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation.html
Read how the Jim Crow "System" was used: http://www.ferris.edu/JIMCROW/what.htm
http://visionaryproject.org/NVLPmemberTier/index2.asp
"This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate in to the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
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"We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that
ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the
making, and the end in process.
Ultimately, you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means
represent the seed and the end represents the tree."
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"The church cannot be silent while mankind faces the threat of nuclear
annihilation. If the church is true to her mission, he must call for an end to
the arms race."
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"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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Martin Luther King, Jr on the Role of Religion in Society
"A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
Such a religion is the kind the Marxists like to see---an opiate of the
people."
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"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values.
The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling
irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from
falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism."
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Martin Luther King, Jr. on Justice and Freedom
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded
by the oppressed."
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"Direct action is not a substitute for work in the courts and the halls of government. Bringing about passage of a new and broad law by a city council, state legislature, or the Congress, or pleading cases before the courts of the land, does not eliminate the necessity for bringing about the mass dramatization of injustice in front of a city hall.
Indeed, direct action and legal action complement one another. When
skillfully employed, each becomes more effective."
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"When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
"A doctrine of black supremacy is as evil as a doctrine of white supremacy."
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"There is nothing that expressed massive civil disobedience any more than the Boston Tea Party, and yet we give this to our young people and our students as a part of the great tradition of our nation.
So I think we are in good company when we break unjust laws, and I think
those who are wiling to do it and accept the penalty are those who are part of
the saving of the nation."
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"Nothing provides the communists with a better climate for expansion and infiltration than the continued alliance of our nation with racism and exploitation throughout the world.
And if we are not diligent in our determination to root out the last vestiges of racism in our dealings with the rest of the world, we may soon see the sins of our fathers visited upon our and succeeding generations.
For the conditions which are so classically represented in Africa are present
also in Asia and in our own backyard in Latin America."
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"Let us say it boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white
man over the years were calculated and were compared with the lawbreaking of a
few days of riots, the hardened criminal would tbe the white man."
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Martin Luther King, Jr. on Mankind
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
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"Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody.
Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for
fear of being called different."
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"All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America. In doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichmann chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows? To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."