Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism. — 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
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are… — 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
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of… — 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
