Society and the World

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

The Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Judicial decrees may not change the heart; but they can restrain the heartless.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

In free society art is not a weapon … Artists are not engineers of the soul.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Ich bin ein Berliner.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.