1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like,

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.