Martin Luther King, Jr.The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroye… ▶371HumanityLovePolitics
Martin Luther King, Jr.The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.371Life
Martin Luther King, Jr.As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. ✨ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Ha… ▶371Truth
Martin Luther King, Jr.At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of… ▶361HopeLifeSadness
Martin Luther King, Jr.Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of cre… ▶361HumanityThoughtTruth
Martin Luther King, Jr.Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective. ✨ Conquering Self-centeredness. Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama… ▶361Truth
Martin Luther King, Jr.Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murd… ▶372Truth
Martin Luther King, Jr.One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.361Thought
Martin Luther King, Jr.It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.372Death
Martin Luther King, Jr.You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be… ▶372Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr.I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is eve… ▶361PoliticsTime
Martin Luther King, Jr.One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. ✨ Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 Apr. 1963372Politics
Martin Luther King, Jr.Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.362Humanity
Martin Luther King, Jr.Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world373Truth
Martin Luther King, Jr.[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the pers… ▶362Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr.When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our j… ▶373Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr.We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ✨ Dr. Martin Lu… ▶373Humanity
Martin Luther King, Jr.We have guided missiles and misguided men. ✨ Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)373Love
Martin Luther King, Jr.We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ✨ Loving Your Enemies by Martin Luther King, J… ▶373LovePolitics
Martin Luther King, Jr.There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. ✨ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream and Other Great Wr… ▶351Love
Martin Luther King, Jr.Power is the ability to achieve purpose. ✨ Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). All Labor Has Dignity, p.145, Beacon Press363Politics
Martin Luther King, Jr.There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. ✨ Loving Your Enemies. S… ▶352Love
Martin Luther King, Jr.While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important. ✨ Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). The Wisdom … ▶374Philosophy
Martin Luther King, Jr.We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or … ▶374Love
Martin Luther King, Jr.Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed … ▶341PoliticsThoughtTruth
Martin Luther King, Jr.I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. ✨ Keep Moving From This Mountain. Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, February 25, 1965.374Humanity
Martin Luther King, Jr.By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. ✨ Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). Strength to Love363Love
Martin Luther King, Jr.A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. ✨ Address on Courage, at Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama, March 8, 1965.341Death
Martin Luther King, Jr.Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ✨ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Wo… ▶341Time
Martin Luther King, Jr.The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks. ✨ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). In a Single Garment of Destiny: A Global Vision … ▶341Humor
