Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence is not the way.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We cannot walk alone.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must use time creatively.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A right delayed is a right denied.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Be the best of whatever you are.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is no gain without struggle.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence multiplies violence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing…

— Martin Luther King, Jr