Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

Modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo.

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

Providing the vision is easy. Getting policy right is hard. The hard thing about the modern world is doing it. The world is changing so fast.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

A difficulty for every solution.

Progress is the mother of problems.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that sense of security.. is the challenge. ... think of yourself as climbing a ladder. To move to the next rung, you must give up your grip and reach for the next one.

Everywhere I look, I see the possibilities of what America could be. But we can't solve any of these problems by relying on the politicians who created them.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.