Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting… — 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