A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr. in an address given in Birmingham, Alabama on December 31, 1963
There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize — I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence. But in a day when sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence…
Martin Luther King, Jr. at an address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse of Western Michigan University on December 18, 1963
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr. in a speech given in St. Louis on March 22, 1962
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything.
Cindy Sheehan
