Martin Luther King, Jr. Change Quotations

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

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

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they're never caught up with. And some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

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

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.