It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism… — 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
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