Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeati...

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broade...

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man,...

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectl...

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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

This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the ve...