I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — 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
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of… — 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
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. — 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
