Martin Luther King Jr.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.

Martin Luther King Jr.