Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — 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 realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from singing into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzingly obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh… — 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 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
