Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

The youth is the hope of our future.

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

We dreamed together of the world remade.

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

I have seen the future, and it works.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

America looked like the land of the future, separated by an ocean from the misfortunes, follies, and crimes of Europe.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

I hope we have American-topias.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.