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Martin Luther King, Jr., on Nonviolence (March 31, 1968)

June 2, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence. And the alternative to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation, and our earthly habitat would be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine.   —Martin Luther King, Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” Address delivered at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (March 31, 1968)

Read the full transcript at the website of the King Institute, Stanford University.

The image above comes from here, courtesy of the DC Public Library.

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President Roosevelt’s Acceptance Speech for Renomination for the Presidency, 1936

September 11, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

president-roosevelt-1936“. . .Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.” [. . .]    –Roosevelt, 1936

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

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Tagged with: 1936, Political Leaders, Politics, Speeches

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