A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes From Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn. Martin Luther King, Jr. hatecompassionpeople We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. Martin Luther King, Jr. godfearscience He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr. historicalacceptanceevil I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity Martin Luther King, Jr. sunlightopportunitygiving All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. Martin Luther King, Jr. caughtmen Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King, Jr. ill-willkingspeople The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. Martin Luther King, Jr. survivalgovernmentstruggle An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King, Jr. respectkingsmotivational Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait. Martin Luther King, Jr. strugglewaitinginspirational Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness. Martin Luther King, Jr. humanness-isdestinycompassion Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? Martin Luther King, Jr. hatejusticeinspirational Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. Martin Luther King, Jr. springmencountry We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreampeacecivilization I am what I am because of who we all are. Martin Luther King, Jr. i-am-what-i-am I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism. Martin Luther King, Jr. militarismmadnesspolitics We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. eating-breakfastearthreality Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. Martin Luther King, Jr. faithpeopleenemy Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. Martin Luther King, Jr. ragecreativeuse Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism. Martin Luther King, Jr. valleysnihilismfall Love is the most durable power in the world. Martin Luther King, Jr. love-isworld
