King Institute Speeches & Sermons on Audio

In this great speech delivered on March 14, 1968, less than a month before he was killed, Dr. King talks about the two Americas that are still very relevant to our modern times.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "A Knock at Midnight" sermon was delivered on June 11, 1967. It is one of his most famous sermons where he relates the parable Jesus told of a man who knocks at midnight for three loaves of bread.

And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.

"How Long, Not Long" is the popular name given to the public speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after the successful completion of the Selma to Montgomery March on March 25, 1965.

On Christmas Eve 1967, Dr. King delivered this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 1964. This is a full-length audio recording of the lecture.

And there are three dimensions of any complete life to which we can fitly give the words of this text: length, breadth, and height.

Enjoy this brief motivational speech that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave to Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia in 1967.

Building upon the achievements of Stanford University’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, the King Research and Education Institute provides an institutional home for a broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel Peace laureate’s life and the movements he inspired.

In this speech, delivered in the year he was assassinated, Dr. King looks back on his life and hopes he will be remembered as a "Drum Major for Justice".