1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.