Martin Luther King, Jr. World Quotations

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world

Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.

Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That's what we need in the world today: people who will stand for right and goodness.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.