Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status… — 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
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. — 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
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
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
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
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
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions…A ny religion that professes to be concerned with… — 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. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality… — 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
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense… — 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. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for… — 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
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image