A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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...
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
A right delayed is a right denied.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring con...
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.
Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimis...
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of...
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.