A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
Martin Luther King, Jr.The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
Martin Luther King, Jr.