A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for — 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
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable. — 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
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — 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
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
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — 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
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at… — 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 ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in… — 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
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — 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
