Home » Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr Hands, Human, Salvation Add to Collection 6 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 7 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 8 All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. Martin Luther King, Jr Progress, Problem, Solution Add to Collection 9 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. Martin Luther King, Jr History, Good, Silence Add to Collection 10 A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr Money, Spiritual, Military Add to Collection 11 There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Find, Down Add to Collection 12 There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Time, November Add to Collection 13 The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. Martin Luther King, Jr Man, Free, Guilt Add to Collection 14 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 15 We must use time creatively. Martin Luther King, Jr Time, Use, Must Add to Collection 16 War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. Martin Luther King, Jr War, Tomorrow, Poor Add to Collection 17 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 18 A right delayed is a right denied. Martin Luther King, Jr Right, Delayed, Denied Add to Collection 19 A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr Language, Riot, Unheard Add to Collection 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 24 Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. Martin Luther King, Jr Pure, Seek, Use Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 next › last »
