America Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

America, you must be born again!

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

— Martin Luther King, Jr

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr