Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.