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.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- “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
