Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Kein Problem wird gelöst, wenn wir träge darauf warten, dass Gott allein sich darum kümmert.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Ich habe einen Traum, dass meine vier Kinder eines Tages in einer Nation leben werden, in der man sie nicht nach ihrer Hautfarbe, sondern nach ihrem Charakter beurteilen wird.
Seeing is not always believing.
Leichtgläubige Menschen verfallen leicht dem Aberglauben.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Die Menschen in Amerika sind vom Rassismus angesteckt - das ist die Gefahr. Paradoxerweise sind sie aber auch von den demokratischen Idealen angesteckt - das ist die Hoffnung.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Liebe ist die beständigste Macht der Welt.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Ungerechtigkeit an irgendeinem Ort bedroht die Gerechtigkeit an jedem anderen.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
Vergebung ist keine einmalige Sache, Vergebung ist ein Lebensstil.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Am Ende werden wir uns nicht an die Worte unserer Feinde erinnern, sondern an das Schweigen unserer Freunde.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Wir müssen immerfort Deiche des Mutes bauen gegen die Flut der Furcht.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Wir haben gelernt, die Luft zu durchfliegen wie die Vögel und das Meer zu durchschwimmen wie die Fische, aber nicht die einfache Kunst, als Brüder zusammen zu leben.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Männer hassen sich oft weil sie Angst voreinander haben; sie haben Angst voreinander weil sie sich nicht kennen; sie kennen sich nicht weil sie nicht kommunizieren können; sie können nicht kommunizieren weil sie getrennt werden.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Die Rassenprobleme werden nie endgültig gelöst werden, solange die unterdrückten Menschen nicht fähig sind, ihre Feinde zu lieben.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Ein Aufruhr ist die Sprache der Ungehörten.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Der alte Grundsatz Auge um Auge macht schließlich alle blind.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Viele der schlechten Seiten in der amerikanischen Geschichte wurden verdunkelt und vergessen.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Vertrauen bedeutet den ersten Schritt zu tun auch wenn du die Treppe noch nicht ganz sehen kannst.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
So lange der Geist versklavt ist, kann der Körper nie frei sein.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Es mag vielleicht war sein das, dass Gesetz keinen Mann dazu bringt mich zu lieben aber es kann Ihn davon abhalten, mich zu lynchen und das ist meiner Meinung nach sehr wichtig.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Wieder und wieder müssen wir zu majestätischen Höhen aufsteigen um unser physische und seelische Energie zu treffen.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Liebe ist die einzige Macht die im Stande ist einen Feind in einen Freund zu verwandeln.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
So gut wie immer hat die kreative engagierte Minderheit die Welt in einen besseren Ort verwandelt.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Der Afroamerikaner braucht den Weißen Mann um ihn von seiner Angst zu befreien. Der weiße Mann braucht den Aforamerikaner um ihn von seiner Schuld zu befreien.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Nichts auf dieser Welt ist gefährlicher als aufrichtige Ignoranz und gewissentliche Dummheit.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Wer das Böse ohne Widerspruch hinnimmt, arbeitet in Wirklichkeit mit ihm zusammen!
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Selbst wenn ich wüsste, dass die Welt morgen in Stücke zerfällt, würde ich immer noch meinen Apfelbaum einpflanzen.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Wir müssen begrenzte Fehlschläge akzeptieren, aber wir dürfen niemals die grenzenlose Hoffnung verlieren.
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Die Schönheit der aufrichtigen Bruderschaft und des Friedens ist kostbarer als Diamanten oder Silber oder Gold.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Alles was wir sehen ist ein Schlagschatten von dem was wir nicht sehen.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Ich habe zuviel Hass gesehen, als dass ich selber hassen möchte.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Wir müssen lernen, entweder als Brüder miteinander zu leben oder als Narren unterzugehen.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Ich habe mich für die Liebe entschieden. Hass ist mir eine zu schwere Bürde.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Hass ist eine zu große Last, als dass man sie tragen könnte.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
So gut wie immer hat die kreativ engagierte Minderheit die Welt in einen besseren Ort verwandelt.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
A lie cannot live.
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
We must use time creatively.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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