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
History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — 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
Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism --… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies? — 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
