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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.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
— 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 time is always right, to do what's right.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
— Brooke Bida
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent
— Martin Luther King Jr.
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't let anybody take your manhood.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It is the church's job, as Dr.[Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
— Shane Claiborne
If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.
— Coretta Scott King
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I just want to do God's will.
— 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.
It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!
— Israelmore Ayivor
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.
— Vince Staples
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
— Jonathan Kozol
The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
— Miriam Makeba
Right isn't always legal.
— J.S.B. Morse
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.
— Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
— Abigail Washburn
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.
— Lil' Wayne
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the highest point of Jesus's life was the moment when he forgave his executioners,
— Karen Armstrong
We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.
— Rodney King
Don't hate, it's to big a burden to bear.
— 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
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
— 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.
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
Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street
— Kinky Friedman
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' " - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
— Jean Shafiroff
People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.
— Israelmore Ayivor
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.