One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King, Jr Activism Copy Share Image
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil rights Copy Share Image
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Civil right movement Copy Share Image
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. — Martin Luther King, Jr Happiness Copy Share Image
Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today. — Martin Luther King, Jr Heart Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Death Copy Share Image
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die… — Martin Luther King, Jr Bears Copy Share Image
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King, Jr Dove Copy Share Image
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Absence Copy Share Image
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Character Copy Share Image
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. — Martin Luther King, Jr Giving Copy Share Image
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Choices Copy Share Image
We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Environmental Copy Share Image
The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Breaking silence Copy Share Image
I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Automobile Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon… — Martin Luther King, Jr Dignity Copy Share Image
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Adventure Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr America Copy Share Image
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Absurd Copy Share Image
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr Citizenship Copy Share Image
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. — Martin Luther King, Jr Acceptance Copy Share Image
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr Against love Copy Share Image
The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple. — Martin Luther King, Jr Body Copy Share Image
Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. — Martin Luther King, Jr Civilization Copy Share Image
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . — Martin Luther King, Jr Dedicated Copy Share Image