1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.