Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Friendship
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Independence
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
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. Peace
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorialday
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Good
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Society
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Death
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Art
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Science
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Science
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
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Great
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Good
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. Good
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. Power
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Learning
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Men
