A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn. — 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
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — 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 are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an… — 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
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — 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, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — 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 was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself;… — 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
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.” — 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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — 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. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
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
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
