A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — 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
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — 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
