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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
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
