You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Contempt Copy Share Image
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind — Martin Luther King, Jr Crime Copy Share Image
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. — Martin Luther King, Jr Inspirational Copy Share Image
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." — Martin Luther King, Jr Abraham Copy Share Image
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Eternal Copy Share Image
The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. — Martin Luther King, Jr Facts Copy Share Image
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Desert Copy Share Image
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Destiny Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Astronomy Copy Share Image
The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing… — Martin Luther King, Jr Danger Copy Share Image
God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Ability 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 Academic Copy Share Image
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely… — 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 Better world Copy Share Image
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Life Copy Share Image
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. — Martin Luther King, Jr Church Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Bad people Copy Share Image
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brilliant Copy Share Image
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Abuse Copy Share Image
Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bears Copy Share Image
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.” — Martin Luther King, Jr Character Copy Share Image
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. — Martin Luther King, Jr African american Copy Share Image
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Dignity Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image