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MLK was this flat symbol when I was younger, but when I actually started to read his essays and books, he became one of my heroes. I'm struck at the distance between the radical King and the Disney version. Every year I honor his memory with some of my favorite quotes (THREAD)
"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“No one surveying the moral landscape of our nation can overlook the hideous and pathetic wreckage of...prejudice and irrationality.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is a strange and twisted logic to use the tragic results of segregation as an argument for its continuation.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Love that does not satisfy justice is no love at all. It is merely a sentimental affection, little more than what one would have for a pet. Love at its best is justice concretized.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The step backward has a new name today. It is called ‘white backlash’.” - Martin Luther King, Jr
"But he who sells you the token instead of the coin always retains the power to revoke its worth, and to command you to get off the bus before you have reached your destination" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"...the silent password was fear...Guilt was a part of their fear. There was also the dread of change, that all too prevalent fear which hounds those whose attitudes have been hardened by the long winter of reaction" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"We proved to them that we possessed the most formidable weapon of all – the conviction that we were right. We had the protection of our knowledge that we were more concerned about realizing our righteous aims than about saving our skins." - Martin Luther King Jr.
If you liked this thread, check out my new essay. Coincidence but fate that I published it on #MLKDay 
https://link.medium.com/uPAzefRk9cb
https://link.medium.com/uPAzefRk9cb
