Martin Luther King, Jr. Have Quotations

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.