Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.
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This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
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I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
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Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
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From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
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I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
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There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
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We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
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In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
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The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.