One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty 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 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