Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
the time is always right to do the right thing
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will not resort to violence, I will not degrade myself with hatred. I will return good for evil, I will love my enemies. Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.