We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is… — 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
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned,… — 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 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
