The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to… — 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
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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 perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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 power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
