There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are… — 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 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
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal… — 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
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 intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — 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
