Top 1200 Martin Luther King Quotes & Sayings

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

I don't remember when I didn't know about Martin Luther King.

We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down.

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, "Kill all white babies."

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

You know, it's hard to say this, but I suspect that Obama is afraid either of blackmail potential or even worse. And he has referred to the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this main saying, "don't you remember what happened to Dr. King?"

What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You had blacks and whites coming together and sacrificing, organizing and mobilizing the world. That's the first time we've had collective action put at the center of any kind of portrayal of Martin King on the screen.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Martin [Luther King] wasn't one to buck forces too much.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda.

A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term African-American president. And this is a terrible country? That was a dream for Martin Luther King.

I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."

The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

Martin Luther King is a notorious liar[]

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.

Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King understood is that you have to deal with the economic issues as well as the political issues and the civil rights issues.

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'