Martin Luther King Jr.'s quote

(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

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Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend 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.
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.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a 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.
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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.
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.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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.
the time is always right to do the right thing
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. The Autobiography of 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. I Have A Dream
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Letter from Birmingham City Jail
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. 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.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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.
I Have A Dream
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong Strength to Love
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.