Martin Luther King Jr.
sitemanagerOur nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each…
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over…
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of…
Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating…
Martin Luther King Jr.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language…
Martin Luther King Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I just want to do God's will.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by…
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King Jr.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.