Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — 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 perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves… — 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 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 power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we… — 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 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
