Martin Luther King, Jr. I Quotations

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

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

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.'

I am what I am because of who we all are.

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.