Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.