We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn. — Martin Luther King, Jr Dawn Copy Share Image
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil rights Copy Share Image
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Divinity Copy Share Image
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom. — Martin Luther King, Jr Crisis Copy Share Image
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Cancer Copy Share Image
The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. — Martin Luther King, Jr Change Copy Share Image
He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Dealing with people Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History… — Martin Luther King, Jr Anger Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned,… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and… — 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 Action 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 Calvary Copy Share Image
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Ability Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Cruelty Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Analysis Copy Share Image
Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?" — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Enemy 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 Idealist Copy Share Image
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr Driven Copy Share Image
When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brother Copy Share Image
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr Evil Copy Share Image
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr Blind Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Anti racism Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Dark Copy Share Image
But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve… — Martin Luther King, Jr Birmingham Copy Share Image
“I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.” — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. — Martin Luther King, Jr Creative Copy Share Image