People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective… There is something about a war like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro… — 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
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. — 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
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until… — 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
How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that… — 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
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — 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