There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. — 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
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
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be. — 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
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions… — 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
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — 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
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — 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