Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. — 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
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
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
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels).… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and… — 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
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — 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
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms… — 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
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
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White… — 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
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." — 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
When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... — 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