We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

We’ve got some difficult days ahead, but it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me […]

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing, […]

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

(Man) has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.