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I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
[W]hen you first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and is willing to accept the penalty.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was.

Martin Luther King, Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968
Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking.

Martin Luther King, Jr., about the March on Washington in the summer of 1963, Why We Can't Wait, 1963
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

Martin Luther King, Jr., address to Holt Street Baptist Church, 5 December 1955
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

Martin Luther King, Jr., March 1956
I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore.

Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

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