Author of quotes: Martin Luther King, Jr.. Page 1

To find enemies, not in a hurry to declare war. Simply begin to say what I think.

There are no wrong time to do the right thing.
The time is always right to do what's right.

We must learn the ability to forgive. Devoid of the power to forgive is devoid the power to love.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Only love will save our world and our civilization, love even for the enemy.
It is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.

Don't stop. Don't let yourself slow down. Go forward with dignity, honor and decency.
Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.

To move forward we have to look back and rediscover precious truths: that all reality rests on morality, and that all of reality obeys the spirit.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values: that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

The greatest threat to modern civilization is the atomic bomb, dormant in the hearts and souls of people who are able to break all-consuming all-destroying hatred and self-interest - namely that of the atomic bomb, we should now be afraid. The problem is the people. In their hearts and souls. This is the real basis of our problem.
The real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness-that's the atomic bomb that we've got to fear today. Problem is with the men. Within the heart and the souls of men. That is the real basis of our problem.

If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not, please, do not try to get. We solve this problem with retaliatory violence. We must respond to violence with nonviolence. Remember that Jesus said, "For all they that take the sword, perish by the sword". We must love our white brothers, what would we do. We must show them that we love them. We still hear Jesus in the words that are given through the centuries: "Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you." So we must live. We must answer hatred with love. Remember: if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because with this movement of God. Go home with this glowing faith and a bright promise.
If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: "He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword." We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you." This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with the movement. Go home with this glowing faith and this radiant assurance.

We either learn to live together as brothers or all of them will perish as fools.
We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

You know, friends, sooner or later people get tired of trampling the iron heel of oppression. Sooner or later, friends, people get tired of dipping into the abyss of humiliation, in which they will explore only the darkness of hopeless despair. Sooner or later people get tired because their were pushed out of a warm, Sunny Jul life and left to languish in the harsh November cold. Sooner or later.
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There comes a time.

People began to live quite, not yet outgrown the narrow confines of selfish concerns, and not came to the concerns of all humanity. Everyone must decide for myself whether he might dwell in the light of creative altruism, or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Thus, the most persistent and urgent question judge called Life: "What are you doing for others?"
An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. Every person must decide at some point, whether they will walk in light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment: Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'

We need to find the power of love, the power, the saving power of love. And when we find her, we can transform this world into a new one. We can make people better. Love is the only way.
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

Even in the worst of us is a particle of good, and in the best of us is a particle of evil.

I have absolute faith in principles of non-violence and believe in them, not only in the transitory method or strategy but as a way of life.