Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

“Lord, I hope no one will have to die as a result of our struggle for freedom here in Montgomery. Certainly I don’t want to die. But if anyone has to die, let it be me!”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“, stand up for justice, stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you, even until the end of the world.” That voice of Jesus, King recounted, “promised never to leave me, no, never to leave me alone.”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“The arc of the moral universe is long, and it bends toward justice.”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer.”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“The end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the Beloved Community,”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“In every human being, black or white, there exists, however dimly, a certain natural identification with every other human being, so that we tend to feel that what happens to a fellow human being also in some way happens to us. Therefore no man can very long continue to abuse another human being without beginning to feel in himself at least some dull answering stir of discomfort.”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“the nation’s canonization of Martin King . . . we have sought to remember him by forgetting him.”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

“We will meet the forces of hate with the power of love. . . . We must say to our white brothers all over the South, We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. . . . Bomb our homes and we will still love you. . . . We will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.”
― Marshall Frady, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life