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
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions. — 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
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. — Martin Luther King, Jr America 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
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may… — Martin Luther King, Jr God Copy Share Image
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brutal Copy Share Image
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns… — Martin Luther King, Jr Humanity Copy Share Image
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Acquiescence Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense… — Martin Luther King, Jr Career Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Compassion Copy Share Image
Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’… — Martin Luther King, Jr Aftermath Copy Share Image
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Abundance Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Birth Copy Share Image
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
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
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Inspirational Copy Share Image
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Abuse Copy Share Image
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Conviction 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
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Anti war Copy Share Image
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. — Martin Luther King, Jr Evening Copy Share Image
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Breaking silence Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. — Martin Luther King, Jr Capitalistic Copy Share Image
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. — Martin Luther King, Jr Government Copy Share Image