A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy — Martin Luther King, Jr Change Copy Share Image
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not… — 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 Commitment Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Family Copy Share Image
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. — Martin Luther King, Jr Goal Copy Share Image
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Enemy Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Birth Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Darkness Copy Share Image
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of… — 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 Beautiful 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
“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
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
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Anger Copy Share Image
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time… — Martin Luther King, Jr Affair Copy Share Image
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best… — Martin Luther King, Jr Astronomy 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 Christian Copy Share Image
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe. — Martin Luther King, Jr Creative Copy Share Image
It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism. — Martin Luther King, Jr Criticism Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together. — Martin Luther King, Jr Brother 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 Crime Copy Share Image
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Cities Copy Share Image
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Beauty Copy Share Image
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable — Martin Luther King, Jr Agony Copy Share Image
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil right movement Copy Share Image
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts… — Martin Luther King, Jr Democracy Copy Share Image
There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Determined Copy Share Image
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. — Martin Luther King, Jr Brotherhood Copy Share Image
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