The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — 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
