We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. — Martin Luther King, Jr Courage Copy Share Image
[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems… — 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 Absolutes Copy Share Image
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Chains Copy Share Image
Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children… — Martin Luther King, Jr Children Copy Share Image
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Anger Copy Share Image
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms… — Martin Luther King, Jr Absence Copy Share Image
“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels).… — Martin Luther King, Jr Angel Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bears Copy Share Image
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Community Copy Share Image
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — 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 America 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 Crime Copy Share Image
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White… — Martin Luther King, Jr Absence Copy Share Image
It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans. — Martin Luther King, Jr Evil Copy Share Image
The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world — Martin Luther King, Jr Democracy Copy Share Image
Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Compassion Copy Share Image