Martin Luther King Jr.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they’d never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.

Martin Luther King Jr.