Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

We are each other's destiny.

Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor Only as free as a padlocked prison door Only as strong as our love for this land Only as tall as we stand!

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.