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Section Spiritual Innovators

Martin Luther King Jr.

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The entire "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial at the terminus of the historic "March On Washington" Civil Rights demonstration. (in .wav format) Click on the yellow filename MLK630828.wav on the page that opens. (It may be faster to load the realaudio version. Click here.)
EarthStation1 is an archive of Sound and Image. This is the link to the Martin Luther King Jr. page where the above is from.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University. Included are many of his published works,speeches, sermons and papers. Social Justice and Transformation are the focus of this collection.
Promised Land Speech. A video of the Promised Land Speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis the evening before his assasination. 3 April 63. (Quicktime format)
This is the lecture The Quest for Peace and Justice, given in 1964 on his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee is as excellent a biography as one could find, and it particularly shows how a life of principle can become a life of consequence.
Quotations
"Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the 'fight with fire' method which you suggest is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community. Physical force can repress, restrain, coerce, destroy, but it cannot create and organize anything permamnent; only love can do that. Yes, love--which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one's enemies--is the solution to the race problem." 1957

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.

"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 of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty." Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967"

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." Strength To Love, 1963

"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority." Strength to Love, 1963
"I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States." 1957
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November 3, 2002