1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.