Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Absolutes Copy Share Image
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater… when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Creative Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which… — Martin Luther King, Jr Attitude Copy Share Image
You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism --… — Martin Luther King, Jr Altruism Copy Share Image
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Age Copy Share Image
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?… — Martin Luther King, Jr Conscience Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Ability Copy Share Image
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases… — Martin Luther King, Jr Audience Copy Share Image
Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Creative Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Ambition Copy Share Image
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
Rarely we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Change Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham… The greatest blasphemy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Blasphemy Copy Share Image
Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Beloved Copy Share Image
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Adolph hitler Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil rights Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Beautiful Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Cities Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Activism Copy Share Image
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science… — Martin Luther King, Jr Age 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
