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
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — 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
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
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — 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
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
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — 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
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
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
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
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
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people. — 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 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
