The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all… — 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
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye"… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation… — 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
