We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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 Copy Share Image
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like… — 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 Copy Share Image
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves… — 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 Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we… — 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 Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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 universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
