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.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Beverly Hills California, (February 25, 1967); as quoted in “Martin Luther King Jr. On the Vietnam War”, The Atlantic.- This passage contains some phrases King later used in “Where Do We Go From Here?” (1967) which has a section below.
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- Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
- The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
- “Beyond Vietnam”, Riverside Church, New York (4 April 1967)
