Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.