The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of… — 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
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — 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
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
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough… — 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
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
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — 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
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the… — 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
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — 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
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with… — 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
Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then… — 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
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the… — 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
