Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

An oppressed people will always rise.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.