Martin Luther King Jr.
- The time is always right to do what is right.
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never
voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
- I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its
creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
Address at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
- I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and
bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1964
- It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world;
it’s nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
I've been to the Mountain Top - last speech
- He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn’t relate to the trans-physics that we knew about. And that was the fact that
there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out.
I've been to the Mountain Top - last speech
- We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been
to the mountaintop... And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight; I’m not worried about anything;
I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
I've been to the Mountain Top - King's last speech
- A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
- If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.