Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.