Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes on Equality

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.

No one is free until we are all free.

The time is always right to fight for what is right.

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

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

The time is always ripe to do right.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes on Equality part 2

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The time is always right to make a difference.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The time is always right to do what is right.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

We must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.