Freedom Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

No one is free until we are all free.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

— 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

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

— 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

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and…

— 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

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come…

— 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

Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult…

— 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

One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself..

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

— 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

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to…

— 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