Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Torture

• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Reality, Web Of Life

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Past, Fire, Black History

• I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suffering, Ostracism, Violence

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