It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well… But now… — 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
All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
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
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — 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
