1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.