The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye"… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — 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
