The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye"… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
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
