Inspirational Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
the time is always right to do the right thing
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Let Freedom Ring.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy
— Jessica Dovey
It may sound strange, but I get the inspiration for most of my Dreams while I'm sleeping.
— Mark W. Boyer
Faith is taking the first step when you don't see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Violence often brings about momentary results.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Violence is not the way.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Hate destroys the hater...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The Universe is on the side of Justice
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
...we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
