Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A lie cannot live."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Lightning makes no sound until it strikes."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."
— 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.
"Find a voice in a whisper."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Seeing is not always believing."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A right delayed is a right denied."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
— 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.
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Without justice, there can be no peace."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Be the peace you wish to see in the world!"
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"In a sense, songs are the soul of a movement."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"In a real sense faith is total surrender to God."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must shift the arms race into a ‘peace race’."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our children need our presence, not our presents."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"In spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace."
— 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.
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"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.
"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
— 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.
"Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"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.
"Music is the best consolation for a despaired man."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Voting is the foundation stone for political action."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age."
— 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.
"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must in strength and humility meet hate with love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
— 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.
"A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"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.
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’"
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer, teacher – let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it."
— 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."
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