1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.