Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
- 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.
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.