"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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. ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. " ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. " ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. " ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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. ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares