Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

The price for freedom is high but it is never too high.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

The price of freedom is death.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.