Long Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

— 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

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

— 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

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood…

— 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

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout…

— 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

...love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to…

— 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

We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't…

— 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 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

We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long…

— 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

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr