Quotes about Awareness
It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am sorry to have to say that the vast majority of white Americans are racist, either consciously or unconsciously.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When religion becomes so involved in a future good over yonder that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.