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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.

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
1968 version
- Morality
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Strength to Love, Chapter 7
- Morality
- Science
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- Morality
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Morality
The time is always right to do what’s right.
“The Future of Integration”, address in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as quoted in “When MLK came to Oberlin” by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008)
- Morality
Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary.
Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)
- Morality

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