Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.