Martin Luther Quotes

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

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

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

Despair makes priests and friars.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.