1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.