Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bends #elbow #justice #moral #universe

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#distant #goal #means #merely #peace

We have guided missiles and misguided men. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#men #misguided #missiles

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#means #must #pure #seek #use

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#made #makers

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#conservative #radical #right #too #wrong

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#earth #how #intended #life #man

Seeing is not always believing. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#believing #seeing

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#carving #loudly #out #past #peaceful

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#free #guilt #him #his #man