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I keep thinking what happens when the power of love is twisted into the love of power.
I realize that it is a dangerous practice, perhaps even subversive, to talk about brotherhood in March.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
Five, the instilling of fear, hatred, and suspicion of everyone outside the camp, of the entire outside world in order to keep the victims in line.
Address on the Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)
I am a Jew, and I am a Rabbi, and I cherish — as do my people — the grandeur of the First Amendment.
Address on the Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)
I marveled again at the power of the federal government whose presence stood between us and another massacre.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
When King speaks, you are not an audience. You are participants. And when he finished we were ready to march.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
It was a deeply moving, deeply religious, and totally non-sectarian service.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril.
I think I went to Alabama to worship God! I know that is what I did on U.S. Highway 80, along with 6,000 men and women, boys and girls, each of whom in his own way was doing the same thing.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
We came to the bridge which had marked the terminal point of two previous attempts. On one of those attempts, King had turned his people back at this spot. On the other attempt, the state troopers had ridden into the crowd with clubs, and bullwhips, and tear gas.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
I am here to protest against child molesters. For as surely as there are those who lure children with lollypops in order to rape their bodies, so, too, do these lure children with candy-coated lies in order to rape their minds.
No man and no group in this country is above the law. Indeed, for 1000 years and more my people have lived with the Hebrew phrase, "נָא דְּמַלְכוּתָא דִּינָא ." [Dina d'malkhuta dina] — "The law of the land is the law."
Address on the Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)
Ladies and gentlemen, every path leads somewhere. That is what a path is all about. The path of segregation leads to lynching every time. The path of antisemitism leads to Auschwitz every time. The path of the cults leads to Jonestown — and we ignore it at our peril.
Address on the Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)
Brotherhood postponed. Dear friends, brotherhood has been postponed for a very long time. Not by the coldness of the weather, but by the coldness of the heart. The task of religion, your religion and mine, is to practice brotherhood, not talk about it.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)