Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?