If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. — 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
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity… — 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
Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in… — 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
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
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
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
