Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

If there is no struggle there is no progress…. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.

It is not about a war against a country, or a war against a religion but rather about the struggle against terrorist violence. As such I do not exclude the use of repressive police and military measures.

As in other times, we are in a war we did not start but have no choice but to win.

A small step in a good direction.

The hardship, the fighting against vigilance should stop, and terrorism should be fought decisively.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

I think that the world that was behind us has gone ahead. We need to run a lot to match that level. So we do not need to calculate. We just need to give it all in. And I have given myself in completely. I've been successful is pulling my entire government in. I believe that India is also committed to moving forward.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

I believe that, we're better when we're moving forward. We're stronger together, so that's what I'm going to be doing.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

Progress is the life-style of man.

I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.