Eredeti: Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
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I Have a Dream (1963)
Eredeti: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
„Csak amikor elég sötét van, látod meg a csillagokat.”
Eredeti: Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Strength to Love (1963)
Eredeti: Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Hova tovább? (1967)
Eredeti: There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Hova tovább? (1967)
Eredeti: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Beszéde a Nobel-békedíj átvételekor (1964)
Eredeti: Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts… Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Túl Vietnámon (1967)
Eredeti: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Strength to Love (1963)
Eredeti: Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Levele a Birmingham-fegyházból (1963)
Eredeti: We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
„Míg a szellem szolga, a test nem lehet szabad.”
Hova tovább? (1967)
Eredeti: As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.
„Az idő mindig alkalmas jó tettek megtételére.”
Eredeti: The time is always right to do what’s right.
„… az igazi testvériesség, és a béke értékesebb, mint a gyémántok, az ezüst, vagy az arany.”
Beszéde a Nobel-békedíj átvételekor (1964)
Eredeti: ... the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
„Ne gondoljátok, hogy Isten Amerikát választotta, (…) hogy az egész világ rendőre legyen.”
Hova tovább? (1967)
Eredeti: Don't let anybody make you think God chose America... to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.