[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure. — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — 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
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.” — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of… — 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