Mather Luther King Jr
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr.Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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 think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King Jr.But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King Jr.Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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 over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The limitations of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence rioting is not revolutionary, but reactionary, because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharthis followed by a sense of futility.
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.We refuse to believe that there is insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
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.A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
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. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love
Martin Luther King, Jr.