Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs… — 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
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make. — 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
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced… — 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
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — 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
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
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
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
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
