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Martin Luther King Jr. — Portrait after a picture by Associated Press (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The 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.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Freedom
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
I Have a Dream (1963)
- Freedom
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Freedom
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
The Birth of a New Nation (1957)
- Freedom
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- America
- Freedom
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
“I Have a Dream”, March on Washington (28 August 1963)
- Freedom
- Race

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