Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr Beautiful Copy Share Image
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Affirmation Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Defeat Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Abundance Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Allotments Copy Share Image
When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Aggression Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Apathy Copy Share Image
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr Agape Copy Share Image
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Enemy Copy Share Image
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Country Copy Share Image
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Affluence 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 Crime Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Ability Copy Share Image
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bombs Copy Share Image
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Cannabis Copy Share Image
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Angry Copy Share Image
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brotherhood Copy Share Image
We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bombs Copy Share Image
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Allegiance Copy Share Image
I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Dignity Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers… — Martin Luther King, Jr Barriers Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bears Copy Share Image
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Asia Copy Share Image
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Christian Copy Share Image
Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Business Copy Share Image
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Conscience Copy Share Image
We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brother Copy Share Image
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