Quotes by Martin Luther King

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

“Lifes most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”

“We must use time creatively.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase.”

“I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the Promised Land.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.”

“Whatever your lifes work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

“I am not interested in power for powers sake, but Im interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”

“The Negros great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.”

“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.”

“A smile says a million words. A tear says a thousand words. One look says it all.”

“Well, art is art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.”

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”

“A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.”

“Love will die if held too tightly; love will fly if held too lightly.”

“If you always love without being loved back your heart will get colder and colder.”

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho we may be, our destiny is tied up with Americas destiny.”

“Onions can make evn Heirs and Widows weep”