Martin Luther King Jr. quote: "As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be jud...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritua...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life'...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nat...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invig...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion give...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanen...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, th...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts with...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hin...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding fr...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wiel...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A lie cannot live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We must use time creatively.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream. for all of u...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I feel that we will continue to have a non-violent movement, and we will continue to find the vast m...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the co...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction
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 ri...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body th...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead,...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A lie cannot live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian...
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.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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 jud...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it so...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens li...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my sit...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever yo...
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.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the he...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tende...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad pe...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It's not only necessary to know how to go about loving your enemies, but also to go down into the qu...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the perso...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens li...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serv...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliati...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or B...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
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 ju...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love c...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state ...
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 ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correctin...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual w...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mut...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crime...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, i...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battl...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his strid...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, pro...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A riot is the language of the unheard.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the righ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another prob...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of no...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hi...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the r...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Seeing is not always believing.
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 jud...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and onl...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit....
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral fo...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the dange...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the pe...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. T...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you a...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who acc...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that b...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of f...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked...
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.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A right delayed is a right denied.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my vein...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The time is always right to do what is right.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal que...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but wher...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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