Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.

Martin Luther King Jr.