And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — 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
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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… — 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
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
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
