The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. — 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
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater… when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But… — 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
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