Frasi di Martin Luther King
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36 potenti parole di amore, uguaglianza e giustizia che ispirano il cambiamento

Scoprite le parole potenti e ispiratrici di Martin Luther King, Jr. un leader visionario che ha sostenuto l'amore contro l'odio, l'uguaglianza contro la discriminazione e la giustizia contro il silenzio. Esplorate le sue famose citazioni che continuano a risuonare e a ispirare il cambiamento nel mondo di oggi.

Martin Luther King Jr., nato con il nome Michael King Jr., è stato un attivista e politico statunitense. Come pastore protestante, è diventato un leader fondamentale nel movimento per i diritti civili degli afroamericani. Ha studiato la filosofia della non violenza di Mahatma Gandhi e Richard Gregg, contribuendo così alla sua visione pacifista.

Il suo impegno sociale è evidente nella Letter from Birmingham Jail del 1963 e in Strength to Love, che rappresentano una potente dichiarazione della sua incessante lotta per la giustizia. Conosciuto come un "apostolo instancabile della resistenza non violenta" e un "eroe per i reietti", Martin Luther King ha sempre lavorato per eliminare pregiudizi etnici negli anni '50 e '60 in America. Ha predicato l'amore e la non violenza come alternative allo status quo passivo o alla violenza preferita da altri gruppi di colore, come i seguaci di Malcolm X.

In breve, Martin Luther King Jr. è stato un leader ispiratore nella lotta per i diritti civili degli afroamericani, promuovendo la resistenza non violenta come strumento di cambiamento sociale positivo.

✵ 15. Gennaio 1929 – 4. Aprile 1968
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Martin Luther King Frasi e Citazioni

“La salvezza dell'uomo è nelle mani dei disadattati creativi.”

da La forza d'amare
La forza di amare

“Ignorare il male equivale ad esserne complici.”

da Il sogno della non violenza. Pensieri
Il sogno della non violenza

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“[Rifiutando una pistola ricevuta in regalo] Sono un predicatore della non violenza. Non ho diritto di portarla. E poi, ciò che conta non è quanto si vive, ma come si vive.”

Citazioni di Martin Luther King
Origine: Citato in Teresio Bosco, Uomini come noi, Società Editrice Internazionale, Torino, 1968.

“Questo 4 di luglio è vostro, non mio.”

da Il sogno della non violenza. Pensieri
Il sogno della non violenza

“Per il progresso dell'umanità, non si può sfuggire a Gandhi. Egli visse, pensò ed operò ispirato dalla visione dell'umanità che evolve verso un mondo di pace e di armonia. Ignorandolo, lo facciamo a nostro rischio e pericolo.”

Citazioni di Martin Luther King
Origine: Da The Words of Martin Luther King Jr., New Market Press, New York, 1983, p. 71; citato in Dennis Dalton, Gandhi, il Mahatma: il potere della nonviolenza, traduzione di Andrea Boni, ECIG, Genova, 1998, p. 13. ISBN 88-7545-842-1

“Cristo ci ha dato gli obiettivi, Mahatma Gandhi la tattica.”

Citazioni di Martin Luther King
Origine: Citato in AA.VV. 2018, p. 225.

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Martin Luther King: Frasi in inglese

“She is not concerned about what I think about it or what Mrs. King thinks about it. She wants it. She’s a child and that’s very natural and normal for a child. She is inevitably self-centered because she’s a child. But when one matures, when one rises above the early years of childhood, he begins to love people for their own sake. He turns himself to higher loyalties. He gives himself to something outside of himself. He gives himself to causes that he lives for and sometimes will even die for. He comes to the point that now he can rise above his individualistic concerns”

1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Contesto: I look at my little daughter every day and she wants certain things and when she wants them, she wants them. And she almost cries out, “I want what I want when I want it.” She is not concerned about what I think about it or what Mrs. King thinks about it. She wants it. She’s a child and that’s very natural and normal for a child. She is inevitably self-centered because she’s a child. But when one matures, when one rises above the early years of childhood, he begins to love people for their own sake. He turns himself to higher loyalties. He gives himself to something outside of himself. He gives himself to causes that he lives for and sometimes will even die for. He comes to the point that now he can rise above his individualistic concerns, and he understands then what Jesus meant when he says, “He who finds his life shall lose it; he who loses his life for my sake, shall find it.”’ In other words, he who finds his ego shall lose his ego, but he who loseth his ego for my sake, shall find it. And so you see people who are apparently selfish; it isn’t merely an ethical issue but it is a psychological issue. They are the victims of arrested development, and they are still children. They haven’t grown up. And like a modern novelist says about one of his characters, “Edith is a little country, bounded on the east and the west, on the north and the south, by Edith.” And so many people are little countries, bounded all around by themselves and they never quite get out of themselves. And these are the persons who are victimized with arrested development.

“You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?"
And I was looking down writing, and I said yes. And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's punctured, you drown in your own blood — that's the end of you.
It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states, and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I've forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what the letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I'll never forget it. It said simply, "Dear Dr. King: I am a ninth-grade student at the Whites Plains High School." She said, "While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I am a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze."”

And I want to say tonight, I want to say that I am happy that I didn't sneeze.
1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values: that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”

1950s, Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)
Variante: If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values: that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

“The non-violent resistors can summarize their message in the following simple terms: we will take direct action against injustice without waiting for other agencies to act. We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly and cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of non-violence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to the truth as we see it.”

1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Variante: The non-violent resistors can summarize their message in the following simple terms: we will take direct action against injustice without waiting for other agencies to act. We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly and cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of non-violence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to the truth as we see it.

“I think it is necessary to say that what is basic and what is needed in the Middle East is peace. Peace for Israel is one thing. Peace for the Arab side of that world is another thing. Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all of our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel, and never mind saying it, as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous ex­ample of what can be done, how desert land almost can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”

68th Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly for Conservative Judaism, March 25, 1968, less than 2 weeks before his death. Source: Martin Luther King's pro-Israel legacy by Allen B. West on February 15, 2014 at AllenBWest.com. http://allenbwest.com/2014/02/martin-luther-kings-pro-israel-legacy/ 2012-01-15 Youtube video Martin Luther King Jr: "Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world" by Youtube user Israel SDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvr2Cxuh2Wk 2014-06-09 Youtube video Dr. King's pro-Israel Legacy (in 5 minutes) by IBSI - Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dd7pIB0CP0
1960s

“We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.”

As quoted by James Baldwin, “Highroad to Destiny,” a chapter in Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln, New York, NY, Hill & Wang, 1993, p. 97, (Rev. King speech to a black congregation in St. Louis), reprinted from the February, 1961 issue of Harper’s magazine under the title: “The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King.”
1960s

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