The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to… — 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
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe… — 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
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly… — 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
