SimplyNeo Quotes

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

We must use time creatively.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

A right delayed is a right denied.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.