Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.