Home » Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr American - American minister 1 The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr Past, Peaceful, Poor Add to Collection 2 We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. Martin Luther King, Jr Peace, War, Negative Add to Collection 3 If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened. Martin Luther King, Jr Wish, Understanding, Angry Add to Collection 4 It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King, Jr Society, White, Born Add to Collection 5 A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King, Jr Death, Spiritual, Men Add to Collection 6 The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. Martin Luther King, Jr Self, Principle, Weapons Add to Collection 7 Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr Hands, Human, Salvation Add to Collection 8 If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Martin Luther King, Jr Spiritual, Reality, Values Add to Collection 9 I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. Martin Luther King, Jr Good, Power Add to Collection 10 Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. Martin Luther King, Jr Pure, Seek, Use Add to Collection 11 The limitation 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 catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. Martin Luther King, Jr Win, Moral, Questions Add to Collection 12 If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. Martin Luther King, Jr Death, Free, Price Add to Collection 13 Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. Martin Luther King, Jr God, America, World Add to Collection 14 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 Love, Peace, War Add to Collection 15 The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. Martin Luther King, Jr Creative, World, Kind Add to Collection 16 When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King, Jr You, Right, Conservative Add to Collection 17 One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr War, Great, Society Add to Collection 18 The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Martin Luther King, Jr Freedom, Equality, Autumn Add to Collection 19 Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. Martin Luther King, Jr Peace, Goal, Seek Add to Collection 20 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 Love, Man, Law Add to Collection 21 Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King, Jr Good, People, Understanding Add to Collection 22 Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. Martin Luther King, Jr Giving, Sympathy, Soul Add to Collection 23 I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr Love, Truth, Evil Add to Collection 24 Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. Martin Luther King, Jr Justice, Struggle Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 next › last »
