Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe tha...

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided agai...

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the unive...

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated indi...

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, Love your enemies. It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just...

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorro...

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the li...