Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Victory

• Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Creating, Victory, Violence

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Business, Believe

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

• Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Encouragement, Children, Love You

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Unusual Things, Victory, Defeated

• A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Order, Justice, Victory

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

• One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Heart, Winning

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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