Evil Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up…

— 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…

— 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

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

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything…

— 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

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence…

— 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 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

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant…

— Martin Luther King, Jr