If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and… — 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 imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — 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
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions 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
