Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.