"There is something in this universe that..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.”
“From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.”
“What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.”
More on Morality
“The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.”
“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”
“I hope I shall never see the daywhen the Force of Rightis deprived of the Right of Force.”
More on Universe
“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
“What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.”
“A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.”