Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions…A ny religion that professes to be concerned with… — 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
[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified… All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Rarely we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham… The greatest blasphemy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself… — 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