Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

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

A little rebellion is a good thing.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.