Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater… when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified… All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
