The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind — 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
The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — 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
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when… — 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
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
