69 quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We must use time creatively.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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