It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr Character Copy Share Image
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Against love Copy Share Image
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Brotherhood Copy Share Image
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Democracy Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bitterness Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye"… — Martin Luther King, Jr Blind Copy Share Image
It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage… — Martin Luther King, Jr Affirmation Copy Share Image
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Almighty Copy Share Image
Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Darkness Copy Share Image
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Antithesis Copy Share Image
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Choices Copy Share Image
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Language Copy Share Image
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do… — Martin Luther King, Jr Conscience Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Character Copy Share Image
If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Character Copy Share Image
And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody… — Martin Luther King, Jr Character Copy Share Image
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Christian Copy Share Image
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Approach Copy Share Image
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Argument Copy Share Image
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Fulfillment Copy Share Image
