Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

The Universe is on the side of Justice

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.