Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!
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We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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Be the best of whatever you are.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
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The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
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[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.
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The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
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The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
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Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
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Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
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I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
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By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
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A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over – balance the bad points.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!
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I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.
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Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.