Famous quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The most famous quotes and wisdom of the 20th century's most influential civil rights leader.
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Without love, benevolence becomes egotism" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"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." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Without justice, there can be no peace. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"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." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." Dr. 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." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ...Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring ... Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it..." Dr. 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.
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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