One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This… — 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
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last. — 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