Just a few of my own favorite quotes from the man who has had the most effect on me and my values....

Yes, Dr. King was a preacher and a man of God. In an address to the National Press Club on July 19, 1962, Dr. King said,...

"...Our goal is freedom. I believe we will win it because the goal of the nation is freedom. Yet we are not passively waiting for a deliverance to come from others moved by their pity for us. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of America- we built it for two centuries without wages, we made cotten king, we built our homes and the homes of our mastera and suffered injiustice and humiliation- but out of a bottomless vitality continued to live and grow. If the inexpressable cruealties of slavery could not extinguish our existence, the opposition we now face will surely fall. We feel that we are the conscience of America- we are its troubled soul- we will continue to insist that right be done because both God's will and the heritage of our nation speak through our echoing demands..."

Dr. King later states a theme upon which his "I Have A Dream" is based in saying, "We are simply seeking to bring into full realization the Anerican dream- a dream yet unfulfilled..."

I have several quotes by Dr. King that I will be sharing in this thread as this htread develops...

My next post will deal with how Dr. King viewed "militancy"...

Bobert