Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am convinced that... in the struggle for righteousness, man has cosmic companionship

An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.

In country after country we see white men building empires on the sweat and suffering of colored people.

For more than a century of slavery and another century of segregation Negroes did not find mass unity nor could they mount mass actions. The American brand of servitude tore them apart and held them in paralyzed solitude.

I am convinced that if we succumb to the temptation to use violence in our struggle for freedom, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to them will be a never-ending reign of chaos. A Voice, echoing through the corridors of time, says to every intemperate Peter, Put down thy sword. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that failed to follow Christ's command.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ? Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving

Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.