Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Destiny

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Struggle

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Integrity, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

• We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gay, Destiny, Together

• Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

• Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Compassion, Humanness Is

• In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Destiny, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

• Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Stars, Children

• If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Destiny, America

• It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, Destiny, Life Is

• Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Men, Decision

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, America, Tied Up

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

• I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Atlanta, Ideas

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

• The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Destiny, White

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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