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.
Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary.
Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heartSomewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
- “I Have a Dream”, March on Washington (28 August 1963)
- “I Have a Dream”, March on Washington (28 August 1963)
- “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”, Mason Temple, Memphis (3 April 1968)
How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
“How Long, Not Long”, speech at the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery (25 March 1965); the image is the abolitionist Theodore Parker’s, from a sermon of 1853- “Beyond Vietnam”, Riverside Church, New York (4 April 1967)
