The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple. — Martin Luther King, Jr Body Copy Share Image
Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. — Martin Luther King, Jr Civilization Copy Share Image
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Against love Copy Share Image
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. — Martin Luther King, Jr Acceptance Copy Share Image
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . — Martin Luther King, Jr Dedicated Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. — Martin Luther King, Jr Church Copy Share Image
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr Evil Copy Share Image
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr Blind Copy Share Image
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Contempt Copy Share Image
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind — Martin Luther King, Jr Crime Copy Share Image
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. — Martin Luther King, Jr Inspirational 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 Anti racism Copy Share Image
But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve… — Martin Luther King, Jr Birmingham Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Enemy Copy Share Image
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Code Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot… — Martin Luther King, Jr Analysis Copy Share Image
Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil rights Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — 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
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 Antithesis 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 Automobile Copy Share Image
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for… — 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 Apathy Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Aggression Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today. — Martin Luther King, Jr Heart Copy Share Image
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. — Martin Luther King, Jr Happiness Copy Share Image
Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Death 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 Dark Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. — Martin Luther King, Jr Creative Copy Share Image
