If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr Death Copy Share Image
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not makers of history. We are made by history. — Martin Luther King, Jr History Copy Share Image
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found — Martin Luther King, Jr Ability Copy Share Image
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King, Jr Bears Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Crime Copy Share Image
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. — Martin Luther King, Jr Consensus Copy Share Image
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong — Martin Luther King, Jr Heart Copy Share Image
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Affirmation Copy Share Image
it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Christian Copy Share Image
If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Action Copy Share Image
I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Agape Copy Share Image
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Christian Copy Share Image
Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Allies Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Aftermath Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Brotherhood Copy Share Image
The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when… — Martin Luther King, Jr Agony Copy Share Image
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Absolutes Copy Share Image
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. — Martin Luther King, Jr Excellence Copy Share Image
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr Men Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Christ Copy Share Image
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil rights Copy Share Image
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
