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Renaissance music

It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Trumpet of Conscience, 1 The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Strength to Love, 1 The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Strength to Love, 1 Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1 Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy. Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Measures of Man, 1 A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.