Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

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

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

Rioting is not revolutionary.

Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.