Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly… — 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 hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the… — 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
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