Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one is free until all of us are free.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we stop caring for whit is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.