Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

All who wish peace ought to unite in the means which may facilitate its attainment.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Let us have peace.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

Longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is produced by war.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.