1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars...

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy