Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?" — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,… — 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