I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.


Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

Martin Luther King Quotes

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it...

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it...

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it...

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it...