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 government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even… — 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 would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
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