My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — 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
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
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of… — 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
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do… — 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
