Clayborne Carson Quotes

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

Clayborne Carson

Noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So

Noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So

Clayborne Carson

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Clayborne Carson (born June 15, 1944) is an American academic who is a professor of history at Stanford University and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985, he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King Jr.

Clayborne Carson Quotes

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

Noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So

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It gave me a new appreciation for objective appraisal

If Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.

Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles...

Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the whoso-ever will, let him come doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a socia...

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people,...

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.

Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be tr...

And I am not doing any thing that I would not do in front of you.

It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion that professes concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic condi...

I often say that if we , as a people, had as much religion in our hearts and souls as we have in our legs and feet, we could change the world. (p.15)It is my opinion that sincerity is not enough for p...

I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’...

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

For Martin, social justice would not roll in on the wings of inevitability but would come through struggle and sacrifice. *

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means,

But I had to look at something else beyond the man—the people who surrounded him—and I felt that Kennedy was surrounded by better people. It was on that basis that I felt that Kennedy would make the b...

But America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress. It seems to me that your moral progress lags behind you...