So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes From Martin Luther King, Jr. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. Martin Luther King, Jr. breaking-silence vision humility When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on. Martin Luther King, Jr. dies crosses bears We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Martin Luther King, Jr. germany never-forget comfort We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. Martin Luther King, Jr. police encouragement change The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue. Martin Luther King, Jr. issues jobs school In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state. Martin Luther King, Jr. glowing men philosophy I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. Martin Luther King, Jr. skin-color respect dream I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government. Martin Luther King, Jr. voice violence government If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. Martin Luther King, Jr. christian civilization book If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Martin Luther King, Jr. loyalty church inspirational Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. spiritual inspirational peace A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. bad-ass 4th-of-july death The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. peace lying commitment We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. Martin Luther King, Jr. kings-and-love political ends Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been. Martin Luther King, Jr. good-friend successful rights And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land Martin Luther King, Jr. land change kings The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Martin Luther King, Jr. kings evil peace Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. Martin Luther King, Jr. correcting revolt justice Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody. Martin Luther King, Jr. feels There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. Martin Luther King, Jr. libertarian-party law men
