Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I'm trying to change the world.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

America has never been moved to perfect our desire for greater democracy without radical thinking and radical voices being at the helm of any such quest.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.