Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
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[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.
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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
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But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
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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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There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
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Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
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Be true to what you said on paper.
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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
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Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty.
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Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
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Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.