Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I Have a Dream”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “There is no gain without struggle.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Hate destroys the hater.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Let’s build bridges, not walls.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “A right delayed is a right denied.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Be a thermostat not a thermometer.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must use time creatively.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “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.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they would die for.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I’m not the man I once was.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Without justice, there can be no peace.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “A lie cannot live.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”

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