Celebrate diversity

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force."

"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."

"The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America."

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart"

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"The nation doesn’t have sense enough to share its wealth and its power with the very people who made it so."

"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of racial justice. Now is the time to get rid of segregation and discrimination."

"If you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they're mistreating you."

"What is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy."

"When there is massive unemployment in the black community, it is called a social problem. But when there is massive unemployment in the white community, it is called a Depression."

"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so."

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.