You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism --… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — 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
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator… — 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 perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves… — 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 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 power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we… — 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 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
![“It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't…” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b9/martin-luther-king-jr-127_appeals_it-s-very-easy-for-one-talking-about-vio_2703031.jpg)
