I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — 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
