The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself;… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well… But now… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk… — 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
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
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
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
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
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
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
