In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... 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
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