„Мы либо научимся жить вместе как братья, либо все вместе погибнем как глупцы.“
We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.
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Stride Toward Freedom: the Montgomery Story (1958) <br class="br">Источник: Биография Кинга Мартина Лютера, [http://www.biografguru.ru/ http://www.biografguru.ru/about/king/?q=3307,, 2010-12-12, ru]
„Только любовь спасёт наш мир и нашу цивилизацию, любовь даже к врагу.“
It is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.
Этот бизнес сжигания человеческого существа напалмом, наполнения домов наших сограждан инвалидами и вдовами, введения ядовитых наркотиков ненависти в вены добропорядочных людей, отправки людей домой с мрачных и кровавых полей битв покалеченными и психологически травмированными никогда не смирится с мудростью, справедливостью и любовью.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values: that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
The real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness—that's the atomic bomb that we've got to fear today. Problem is with the men. Within the heart and the souls of men. That is the real basis of our problem.
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. 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. There comes a time.