We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — 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
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — 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
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