God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it… — 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
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby… — 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
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified… All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — 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
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — 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
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
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
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share