I like good quotes and have a number of them from Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and various other persons on the front page of www.nonviolentcow.org . A good quote is words taken out of context that on their own make good common sense. Some persons, like Thomas Merton, have good quotes in writing; some like Martin Luther King Jr. are good at quotes from speeches and Dorothy Day at both.

I was looking again today for a quote I heard from Martin Luther King Jr. on a day of reflection some years back in which he talks about the more active he gets the more he needs to pray. I could not find the quote but found some more good ones, below, from King that I can add to the quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. web page. These are the ones that fit well with where I am at with my life these days.

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

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