I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to… — 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
