Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty. — 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
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism… — 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
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
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical… — 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
All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your… — 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
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
