1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

...and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky...

The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.