Martin Luther King, Jr. Breaking Quotations

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.