Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit. — 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
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 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
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
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all… — 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 Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the qu icksands of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — 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
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham… The greatest blasphemy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul… — 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 good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every… — 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
