Martin Luther Quotes

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

The Universe is on the side of Justice

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

Be the best of whatever you are.

We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

But by all means, keep moving.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

I have a dream today!

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.