1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march...

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.