Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

We are here to make another world.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Only force would produce social change.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.