R.K. King Quotes
That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
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.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.
God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
