1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.