Martin Luther King Quotes

Discrimination against black people is present in every moment of their lives to remind them that inferiority is a lie that only the society that dominates them accepts as true.

I maintain that whoever breaks a law because their conscience deems it unjust, and willingly accepts a prison sentence in order to raise social consciousness against that injustice, actually displays a higher respect for the law.

Man was born into barbarism, where killing one's fellow human being was a normal condition of existence. He was granted a conscience. And now the day has come when violence towards another human being must become as abhorrent as eating the flesh of another.

From my Christian upbringing, I have obtained my ideals, and from Gandhi, the technique of action.

Perhaps suffering and love have a redemptive capacity that men have forgotten or, at least, neglected.

The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.

The most urgent and persistent question in life is: What are you doing for others?

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

I refuse to accept the idea that humanity is tragically bound to the midnight of racism and war, that makes it impossible to achieve the dawn of peace and brotherhood.