True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts… — 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
