Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas.

Power transforms what it touches.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Only force would produce social change.

Power may be defined as the production of intended effects

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

The use of power to bring about radical social and political change in the 1860s carries important implications for the use of federal power to bring about change in matters of race, citizenship, and social welfare today. So long as this remains true—and there us no sign that these issues will go away any time soon.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

High office—whether elected, appointed, or simply taken—comes with power. But that is not a sufficient precondition for success. Among the world’s hundreds …, only a few really stand out for the risks that they have taken and the changes they have made

Change America—Change the World

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

Change has come to America.