Logo
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Martin Luther King Day
category

“I” cannot reach fulfillment without “thou.” The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong…. There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. – Alexander Bickel

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared…. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

Random Quotes

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Gratitude

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I dont have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. – Jacqueline Bisset

Category:
Beauty

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didnt necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. – Jenna Fischer

Category:
famous

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I dont want to do the same thing all the time. – Norah Jones

Category:
Music