One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality
― Martin Luther King Jr.