1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.