"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In The End We Will Remember
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
About this quote
Attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. and endorsed as authentic by the King Center, which has cited it alongside other verified King statements on silence, including "There comes a time when silence is betrayal." The precise speech has not been definitively identified, but the quote fits squarely within King's documented critique of white moderates — people who privately supported civil rights but refused to act, a theme he developed at length in the 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Source
Attributed, widely quoted
