Society and the World

Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over Africa—

He’s an absent-minded beggar and his weaknesses are great.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’

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.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood …

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood …

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.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

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