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
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has… — 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 succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and… — 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
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live… — 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
