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May 22, 2015 - May 1, 2017
“Passive resistance combined with freedom from hate is a power to be reckoned with,”
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King responded. “I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action. In fact I 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.”
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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If one is truly devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the earth of social evils. The gospel ...
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Furthermore, many ministers preached only about the afterlife, rather than about what role the church could play in improving present-day society.
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At Morehouse, “the shackles of fundamentalism were removed” from his mind.
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“how could I love a race of people who hated me and who had been responsible for breaking me up with one of my best childhood friends?
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intellectual excellence could be combined with preaching and the pastoral role.
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“an inescapable urge to serve society”
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men in privileged groups were the most persistent in obstructing any efforts to improve society.
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“the complexity of human motives and the reality of sin on every level of man’s existence.”
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pacifists “fail to recognize the sinfulness of man.”
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the essence of nonviolence was a refusal to retaliate against evil, a refusal based on the realization that “the law of retaliation is the law of the multiplication of evil.”
And my great prayer is always that God will save me from the paralysis of crippling fear, because I think when a person lives with the fear of the consequences for his personal life, he can never do anything in terms of lifting the whole of humanity and solving many of the social problems that we confront.
“but he is not the King I knew. He has grown twenty years in about five. He is almost to a fault exceedingly retiring; he wanders around in a daze asking himself: Why has God seen fit to catapult me into such a situation.”
Through the ballot many of the other problems will be solved. Until the colored man comes to this point he will have a hard struggle. When he gets the ballot, he can wield political power and come into his own.… The chief weapon in our fight for civil rights is the vote.
The real goal, however, was not to defeat the white man, but “to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority.… The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community” where all men would treat each other as brothers and equals.
As I became involved, and as people began to derive inspiration from their involvement, I realized that the choice leaves your own hands. The people expect you to give them leadership. You see them growing as they move into action, and then you know you no longer have a choice, you can’t decide whether to stay in it or get out of it, you must stay in it.
“The oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed.… Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance.… Freedom comes only through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.”
Equality for Negroes is related to the greater problem of economic uplift for Negroes and poor white men. They share a common problem and have a common interest in working together for economic and social uplift. They can and must work together.
King also faced the continuing problem of E. D. Nixon.
