Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is… — 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 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
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation 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
Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God… — 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
Rarely we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham… The greatest blasphemy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through… — 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 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
