Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'.. view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

A lie cannot live... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical.. view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must use time creatively... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have guided missiles and misguided men... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness.. view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase... view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.. view

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.