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The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
— 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.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing. — Martin Luther King Jr.
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing. — Martin Luther King Jr.
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Whom you would change, you must first love.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The self cannot be self without other selves.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody.
— Martin Luther King Sr.
A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
— Israelmore Ayivor
When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
— Brooke Bida
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't let anybody take your manhood.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
— Coretta Scott King
Miracle Message #16: "Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MiraclesNow
— Gabrielle Bernstein
There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.
From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris — Martin Luther King Jr.
From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris — Martin Luther King Jr.
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' " - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
— Jean Shafiroff
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
— 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.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero
— Morgan Freeman
As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
— Cornel West
Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
— Martin Luther King Jr.
[God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.
— Kwasi Kwarteng
You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
— 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 consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny ... I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Find a voice in a whisper.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.
— Zulay Henao
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.
— Israelmore Ayivor
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
— Pete Seeger
Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots.
— Israelmore Ayivor
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Is is always time to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
— Adrian Cronauer
All labor has dignity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed ... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I am what I am because of who we all are.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
No one has the right to pee on your dreams!
— Israelmore Ayivor
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.
— Israelmore Ayivor
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— 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.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
— Martin Luther King Jr.