1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.