Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men… — 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
The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — 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
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — 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
“I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.” — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I… — 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 came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself;… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to… — 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
