The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
Strength to Love (1963)
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More from Martin Luther King Jr.
Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.
'Letter from Birmingham Jail' in Why We Can't Wait 1963.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
Strength to Love ch. 13 (1963)
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. If you are cut down in a movement that is designed to save the soul of a nation, then no other death could be more redemptive.
Spoken at Ebenezer Baptist Church the month before his death, and recalled at Dr. King's funeral.
