We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
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No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
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Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

I’ve always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don’t believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn’t function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Japan knows the horror of war and has suffered as no other nation under the cloud of nuclear disaster. Certainly Japan can stand strong for a world of peace.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
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