Martin Luther King Jr.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

Martin Luther King Jr.