Time Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must use time creatively.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Is is always time to do the right thing.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

— 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

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned,…

— 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

“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There…

— 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

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.…

— 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

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

At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

— Martin Luther King, Jr