Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The quotations of
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader
1929–1968
84 quotes, most often on Race, War & Peace and Love.
- Stride Toward Freedom (1958), pp. 28-29
- I Have a Dream (1963)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Address on Courage (1965)- Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Lecture by The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Oslo, Norway (December 11, 1964) p. 1.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
- I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- This passage contains some phrases King later used in “Where Do We Go From Here?” (1967) which has a section below.
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
- The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement (1967)
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was “disturbing the peace” by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates- The Other America (1968)
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
