Logo
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fe

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Martin Luther King Day
category

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

Random Quotes

God will provide — ah, if only He would till He does! – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
God

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago. – Julian Clary

Category:
famous

I think its a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts. – Jeff Daniels

Category:
Trust

As you get older, things conk out. Its a bit like a car. As long as its something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles. – Len Goodman

Category:
car