Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral end...

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evi...

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in rea...

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

the time is always right to do the right thing

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your life. And every time you set out to be go...

Find a voice in a whisper.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and ob...

Let Freedom Ring.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love ca...