Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...… — 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
For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps… — 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
I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for… — 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
