Humans Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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

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

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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