If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in… — 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
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the… — 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 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 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
