Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.