Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
1929 – 1968
American Baptist minister and civil rights activist whose leadership was instrumental in the American civil rights movement. His words on justice, love, and courage endure as moral touchstones.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
“We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence.”
“Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.”
“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest.”
“Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance.”
“There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.”
“Sometimes, you know, it's necessary to go backward in order to go forward.”
“It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong.”
“I'm not going to put my ultimate faith in gadgets and contrivances.”
