Мартин Лютер Кинг: Актуальные цитаты (страница 2)
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On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" (31 March 1968)
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.
Из речи Мартина Лютера Кинга у монумента Линкольна в Вашингтоне, 28 августа 1963 г.
„Тебя нельзя оседлать, пока ты сам не согнёшь свою спину.“
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.