1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.