“I have faith in the future because I have faith in God and I believe that there is a power, a creative force in this universe seeking at all times to bring down prodigious hilltops of evil and pull low gigantic mountains of injustice.”
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Source: Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960)
About this quote
In Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine justice, with attention to faith, future, believe. The practical center is the relationship between spirituality and mountains and injustice, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around faith before participants choose one measurable action related to justice.
- A teacher pairs the passage from Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960) with a primary-source exercise about spirituality and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between future and injustice to discuss conduct under pressure.