Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Civil Rights
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
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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.
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Without justice, there can be no peace.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
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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.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
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We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Born: January 15, 1929
- Died: April 4, 1968
- Occupation: Civil rights activist
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