“[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the fires of justice. Let us be… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share
“All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“But dignity is also corroded by poverty no matter how poetically we invest the humble with simple graces and charm. No worker… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“The average Negro is born into want and deprivation. His struggle to escape his circumstances is hindered by color discrimination. He is… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“The assistant director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Hyman Bookbinder, in a frank statement on December 29, 1966, declared that the… — 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