Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
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Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
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The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
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There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.
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We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
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Violence multiplies violence.
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Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
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We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
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The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.
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There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.