HAPPY MLK DAY. What is his most powerful quote in your mind?

[Coyotl]

Or, what is most memorable to you, or prophetic, inspiring, whatever seems most significant in his words from your point of view?

The quote I just encountered that inspires the question is this reference to defense and Vietnam:

"It challenges the imagination to contemplate what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words speak to us for all time
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/21/1180822/-Dr-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-s-words-speak-to-us-for-all-time

King followed on this context:

"It is estimated that we spend $322,000 for each enemy we kill, while we spend in the so-called war on poverty in America only about $53 for each person classified as "poor. And much of that 53 dollars goes for salaries of people who are not poor."

Where are those voices today? Let us hope Obama sings in that choir in the next four years.

[Coyotl]

1. MLK "I have a Dream" speech

I Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

[gopiscrap]

2. This is mine from MLK Jrs. speeches

"The arc of the moral universe tends to bend towards justice"

[Octafish]

3. ''Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.''

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

[Fight2Win]

4. The entire Beyond Vietnam speech

But this is my favorite quote today...

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

[Coyotl]

5. Speak of foretelling the Bush years!

" the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight. "