Quotes By Martin Luther King Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.