Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity — Martin Luther King, Jr Adversity Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. — Martin Luther King, Jr Capitalistic Copy Share Image
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Breaking silence Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Nonviolence Copy Share Image
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. — Martin Luther King, Jr Government Copy Share Image
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Fool Copy Share Image
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr Audacious Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Moral Copy Share Image
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Anger Copy Share Image
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Acquiescence Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Darkness Copy Share Image
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Children 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
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Authenticity Copy Share Image
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Blind Copy Share Image
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Dream Copy Share Image
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Courage Copy Share Image
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world — Martin Luther King, Jr Brutality 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 America Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Dignity 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
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism. — Martin Luther King, Jr Anti semitism Copy Share Image
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Divinity Copy Share Image
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom. — Martin Luther King, Jr Crisis Copy Share Image
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