We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men… — 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
