Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Turmoil stimulates.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

We don’t need to wait three generations for change.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

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

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

Progress has been much more general than retrogression