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Quotes from Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution — Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968 United States

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Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

Let nobody give you the impression that the problem of racial injustice will work itself out. Let nobody give you the impression that only time will solve the problem.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

This is the challenge facing modern man.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

Anyone who feels that the problems of mankind can be solved through violence is sleeping through a revolution.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

I am convinced that violence ends up creating many more social problems than it solves.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

We must find some alternative to war and bloodshed.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

I believe that we, as Negroes, are going to gain our freedom in America because the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

There are all too many people who, in some great period of social change, fail to achieve the new mental outlooks that the new situation demands. There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

I do not wish to minimize the complexity of the problems to be faced in achieving disarmament and peace. But we shall not have the courage, the insight, to deal with such matters unless we are prepared to undergo a mental and spiritual change.

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.