La oscuridad no puede conducirte fuera de la oscuridad;
sólo la luz puede hacer eso.
El odio no puede conducirte fuera del odio;
sólo el amor puede hacer eso.


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