Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.