“It is the beginning of the year of our Lord 1963. I see a young Negro boy. He is sitting on a stoop in front of a vermin-infested apartment house in Harlem. The stench of garbage is in the halls.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share
“I wept for my children and all black children who have been denied a knowledge of their heritage; I wept for all white children, who, through daily miseducation, are taught that the Negro is an irrelevant entity in American society;… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of… — 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… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to say, 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with a cruel and unjust punishment, and when suddenly he turns upon you and says: “Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know that I am right… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North star” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
