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
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme unifying principle of life. — Martin Luther King, Jr Inspirational Copy Share Image
Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children… — Martin Luther King, Jr Children Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Chains Copy Share Image
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Contempt Copy Share Image
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr Institutions Copy Share Image
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther King, Jr Religion Copy Share Image
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr God Copy Share Image
If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. — Martin Luther King, Jr Christianity 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 Agony Copy Share Image
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Beloved Copy Share Image
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Beloved Copy Share Image
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Beauty Copy Share Image
[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if… — Martin Luther King, Jr Activism Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions…A ny religion that professes to be concerned with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Assertive Copy Share Image
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil rights Copy Share Image
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil right movement Copy Share Image
Nothing pains some people more than having to think — Martin Luther King, Jr Decision Copy Share Image
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King, Jr Activism Copy Share Image
I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind. — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image