3 December 2020 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. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. One who breaks an unjust 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 its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
3 December 2020 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 its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
3 December 2020 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, and the unborn could do it no better.
3 December 2020 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 might have done you a greater one.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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 the content of their character.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
3 December 2020 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 former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
