It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — 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
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land. — 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
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency… — 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
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've… — 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
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation… — 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
