Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

There is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people’s urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

We have come too far to go back, my friends.

Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.

I feel like there are a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. I think it's too early to judge, and I don't think the gay community is in any way falling short.

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward

Progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

I hope that people understand in order for things to change in our country, we all have to come together and do it together.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.