It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
