{"id":588,"date":"2012-01-16T20:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/areasontosmile\/?p=588"},"modified":"2012-01-16T20:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:55:44","slug":"free-at-last-martin-luther-king-day-2012-quotes-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/areasontosmile\/2012\/01\/free-at-last-martin-luther-king-day-2012-quotes-and-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Free at last! Martin Luther King Day 2012 quotes and video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QMp584hnWVE\/TxGfofIFkmI\/AAAAAAAAD_0\/YDBi0Xk8ktk\/s1600\/Martin-Luther-King-Jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-591\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/304\/2012\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was fortunate to be born in 1978, long after Martin Luther King, Jr. said these words that changed the world. \u00a0Even though I am from the deep South, and encountered my fair share of discrimination and intolerance, it was nothing like what my parents and grandparents generations endured to fight for the freedoms that I now enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate Martin Luther King Day 2012, here is a short video of his I Have a Dream speech, and a small sample of his quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/authors\/m\/martin_luther_king_jr.html#ixzz1jefwRacw\" target=\"_blank\">Brainyquote.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I give thanks to MLK, his family, friends, and all the men and women of all races and walks of life who stood up to intolerance and oppression. \u00a0While there will always be more work to do, \u00a0I would not be who I am, or have what I have if not for your struggles and\u00a0sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anthony Mesler - MLK&#039;s I Have Dream Speech (Improv Music Composition Piece)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqS88XWt0hE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A lie cannot live.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A man can&#8217;t ride your back unless it&#8217;s bent.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A man who won&#8217;t die for something is not fit to live.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A right delayed is a right denied.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A riot is the language of the unheard.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t ride you unless your back is bent.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is taking the first step even when you don&#8217;t see the whole staircase.<br \/>\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think ? 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