The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — 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
