Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech." 10 Dec. 1964, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Published in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by James Melvin Washington, HarperCollins, 1986, p. 226.
The Diggers were a religious-economic movement that even today would be considered very radical. They advocated the right of the poor to go onto public lands and farm them—thus the name “Diggers.” Beyond their opposition to the private ownership of land to the exclusion of the poor, Winstanley and the Diggers promulgated another very modern doctrine: That the poor should take the responsibility and have the right to determine how the society should provide for the poor. A version of this became one of the Mottos of the Poverty Program of 1964. See {616966}.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr.
