If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it… — 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
I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow… — 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