I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with… — 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 just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled.… — 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
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
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for… — 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
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor… — 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
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
