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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Address on Courage (1965)
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Other America (1968)
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
- Forgiveness
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
- Change
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
- America
- Change
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
- Change
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them⁠—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Different Seasons (1982)
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Just So Stories (1902), The Elephant’s Child.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody⁠—it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936
Funny how the new things are the old things.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936With the Night Mail