True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism --… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial… — 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
