Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Things don’t always get better. Sometimes they get worse. The only way things will get better if people make them better.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

You are either going forward or you are not.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Progress is a choice.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Don't be content with things as they are.

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

The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight...

The Socialist movement, the Labour movement, call it which you will, and the Women’s movement, are but different aspects of the same great force which has been, all through the ages, gradually pushing its way upwards, making for the reconstruction and regeneration of Society.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.