1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.