Martin Luther King Jr.

The white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

We must not seek to solve our problems by making them more complex.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

The greatest of all evils is the evil of indifference.

Man's inhumanity to man is not only a crime against humanity, but it is a sin against God.

The universe is on the side of justice.

The price that we pay for being apathetic about politics is to be governed by men worse than ourselves.

We must develop a greater sense of urgency. We must realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

The ultimate tragedy of life is not that men are afraid of death, but that men are afraid to live.

We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and that they are destructive of the community.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.