About This Project
MLK Quotes is a free archive of quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is built so you can find the right words fast, know where they come from, and copy them without guessing at the wording.
Quotes are sorted by theme (love, justice, peace, hope, leadership, and more) and by moment (MLK Day, a classroom, a short caption). Where possible, each quote is sourced to the exact speech, sermon, letter, or book it came from. See ourSources and Attribution page for more on how we check quotes.
Ricardo grew up a few blocks from Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached for years. He researches and checks every quote on this site against its original speech, sermon, or published source before it goes up. Where a widely shared quote's source could not be confirmed, this site says so instead of guessing.