Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being .... We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science and economy.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.