Radical MLK Quotes Beyond 'I Have a Dream'
Every year, Martin Luther King Jr.'s quotes are co-opted, misused, and white-washed. This year, dive into a fuller understanding of his words and messages.
Quotes
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
He who passively
accepts evil is as much
involved in it as he who
helps to perpetrate it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more MLK quotes but the white moderate,
who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers
a negative peace which
is the absence of tension to a positive peace which
is the presence of justice.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler
or the Ku Klux Klanner,
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more MLK quotes a radical redistribution of political and
economic power.”
The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot
be solved without
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more MLK quotes without radical changes in the structure of
our society.
White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more MLK quotes We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more MLK quotes while racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists.
For the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country even today is freedom and equality
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read the full list of quotes We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read the full list of quotes be true to what
you said on paper.
All we say to America is:
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Read the full list of quotes Read more of MLK's lesser-known quotes
Go beyond the clichés and explore King quotes about a radical re-imagining of what the world could be.