Home » Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr American - American minister 1 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 2 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 3 Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr Hands, Human, Salvation Add to Collection 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Respect, Man Add to Collection 9 We must use time creatively. Martin Luther King, Jr Time, Use, Must Add to Collection 10 War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. Martin Luther King, Jr War, Tomorrow, Poor Add to Collection 11 We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Martin Luther King, Jr Action, Alive, Hidden Add to Collection 12 A right delayed is a right denied. Martin Luther King, Jr Right, Delayed, Denied Add to Collection 13 A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr Language, Riot, Unheard Add to Collection 14 Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King, Jr Wisdom, Knowledge, Science Add to Collection 15 Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr Man, Hate, Violence Add to Collection 16 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 17 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 18 Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. Martin Luther King, Jr Pure, Seek, Use Add to Collection 19 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 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 24 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 1 2 3 4 5 next › last »
