Nonviolent resistance Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere…

— Jesse Helms

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the…

— Anonymous

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as…

— Malcolm X

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in…

— Bill Ayers

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try…

— Martin Luther King Jr