My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we… — 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
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
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense… — 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 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
