Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared…… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — 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