Martin Luther King Jr.

In any civilized society, it is every citizen’s responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen’s responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Martin Luther King Jr.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.

Martin Luther King Jr.