Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

1929–1968 United States

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Also known as: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., King, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King, Jr, Martin Luther King, Jr.

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

They are honoring a great one in Clemente. I have been watching his career ever since he joined the Pittsburgh club. Roberto should wind up as one of the all-time stars before he is through.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed.

Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)

The third way open to oppressed people in their quest for freedom is the way of nonviolent resistance.

Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)

Another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression.

Loving Your Enemies (1957)

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

The forces of good will must be mobilized in order to go the additional distance and make integration and the brotherhood of man a reality.

Address to Cornell College (1962)

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

I Have a Dream (1963)

Man is a means to that end. Man has no inalienable rights. His only rights are derived from, and conferred by, the state. Under such a system, the fountain of freedom runs dry.

Strength to Love (1963)

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.

Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action.

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Segregation is wrong because it is a system of adultery perpetuated by an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Cobo Center speech (1963)

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