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.
- The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
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- Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
Speech to the Second National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights – Chicago (25 March 1966), as quoted in Dan Munro, “America’s Forgotten Civil Right—Healthcare”, Forbes (28 August 2013)- Cobo Center speech (1963)
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
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
