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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 16 April 1963
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.” 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.
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” 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.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)“
“Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” Speech in Detroit, Michigan on June 23, 1963
“Life’s most persistent and urgent questions is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr. Speech in St. Louis, Missouri, March 22, 1964
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” 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.
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” “I Have a Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“A lie cannot live.”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.
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” 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.
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” 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.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“Like anybody, I would like to live 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.
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land” Martin Luther King Jr.
“So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.” Martin Luther King Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968 (the day before his assassination)
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the law.” “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)
“A right delayed is a right denied.” 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.” Martin Luther King Jr. The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 13, 1962
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“As my sufferings mounted, I soon realize that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or to seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)
“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)
“We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears labored without wages. They made cotton ‘king’.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Where do we go from here?” speech, August 16, 1967
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“We will be able to speed up that 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 in the words of the old spiritual, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.” Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“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.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” Martin Luther King Jr
“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.” Martin Luther King Jr
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’” Martin Luther King Jr
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.” Martin Luther King Jr
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” Martin Luther King Jr
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” Martin Luther King Jr
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther King Jr
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you rise to the level of love, of it’s great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.” Martin Luther King Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968 (the day before his assassination)
“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.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)
“We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears labored without wages. They made cotton ‘king’. And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. . . . Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that 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 in the words of the old spiritual, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.” Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” Martin Luther King Jr
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent..” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of it’s great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.” Martin Luther King Jr.