1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate destroys the hater...

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".