The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
...we must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — 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
