If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if… — 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