I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence… — 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