From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. — 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
My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — 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
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
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
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were… — 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
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
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that… — 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
