A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. — Martin Luther King, Jr African american Copy Share Image
Voting is the foundation stone for political action. — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Life Copy Share Image
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr Collective bargaining Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Anti war Copy Share Image
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live… — Martin Luther King, Jr Conscience Copy Share Image
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Eternal Copy Share Image
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Army Copy Share Image
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential… — Martin Luther King, Jr Depreciate Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Acceptance Copy Share Image
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when… — Martin Luther King, Jr Advocacy Copy Share Image
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances… — Martin Luther King, Jr Children Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — 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 Brotherhood Copy Share Image
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Blind Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Aftermath Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia... — Martin Luther King, Jr Dream Copy Share Image
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is. — Martin Luther King, Jr Body Copy Share Image
Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight? — Martin Luther King, Jr Church Copy Share Image
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak. — Martin Luther King, Jr Audience Copy Share Image
I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership. — Martin Luther King, Jr Leadership Copy Share Image
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
