Speak Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself;…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well… But now…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls…

— 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

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

The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when…

— Martin Luther King, Jr