Martin Luther King Jr.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called ‘boy’ has become a man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won’t be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance.

Martin Luther King Jr.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Martin Luther King Jr.