Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for… — 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
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
So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency… — 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
I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,… — 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
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — 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
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — 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
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — 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
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — 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
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy — 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. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels).… — 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