Quotes about Struggle
The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills of freedom in one majestic chorus
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today's despair is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow's justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
freedom is not given, it is won.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He explains how all African Americans involved in our own liberation struggle came to embody the dignity of moral conviction and self-sacrifice. Importantly, he explains here how the way of nonviolence heals the oppressed as well as the oppressor.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why does misery constantly haunt the Negro?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I had been fighting too long and too hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
All of this tells us that the white backlash is nothing new. White America has been backlashing on the fundamental God-given and human rights of Negro Americans for more than three hundred years. With all of her dazzling achievements and stupendous material strides, America has maintained its strange ambivalence on the question of racial justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.