Martin Luther King
View AuthorNo one will ride over us if we don't bend our backs.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorInjustice, wherever it may be, is a threat to Justice as a whole.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorDiscrimination against black people is present in every moment of their lives to remind them that inferiority is a lie that only the society that dominates them accepts as true.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorI maintain that whoever breaks a law because their conscience deems it unjust, and willingly accepts a prison sentence in order to raise social consciousness against that injustice, actually displays a higher respect for the law.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorMan was born into barbarism, where killing one's fellow human being was a normal condition of existence. He was granted a conscience. And now the day has come when violence towards another human being must become as abhorrent as eating the flesh of another.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorFrom my Christian upbringing, I have obtained my ideals, and from Gandhi, the technique of action.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorPerhaps suffering and love have a redemptive capacity that men have forgotten or, at least, neglected.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorThe arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorDarkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorThe most urgent and persistent question in life is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King
View AuthorI have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King
View AuthorWe must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.