Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech 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.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

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

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.