Jr. Quotes

“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.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice

“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice law progress

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice law

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice democracy

“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice law

“Over the past few years I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.'”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:law

“one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:law

“There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:despair

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:oppression

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