Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes

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.
Love Forgiveness Light Darkness Hate
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History Made Makers
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence Remember Words Enemies
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Great Hate Burden Bear
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life You Doing Others
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time Brainy Always Right
"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.
Man Challenge Measure Of A Man He
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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Character People Day Look
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learning Together Live Must Fools
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life Quality Important Longevity
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope Lose Disappointment Never
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
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Education Character Intelligence True
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
World Stupidity Ignorance Nothing
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Truth Peace War
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Friendship Love Is Enemy
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good History People Silence
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom Never Must Oppressor Given
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith You Step See
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Boat Same Now Come
"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.
Life Work Man Better Job
"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.
Good People Silence Bad
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
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Justice Struggle Sacrifice Progress
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
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Science Power Men Spiritual Our
"If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
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Death Man Die Will
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Man Revenge Foundation
"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.
Work Change Man You
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. 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.
Love Best Good Forgiveness
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Evil Who He Without
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace Justice Battle I Am
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Truth Believe Evil
"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.
Man Walk Light Darkness
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
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Peace Seek Goal Which Means
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work Humanity Excellence Dignity
"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.
Good Power I Am Right
"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice Man True Stand
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leadership Genuine Leader Consensus
"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."
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Humanity Rise Living Rise Above
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hill Day Together Glory
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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People Thinking Men Brainy
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
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Wisdom Time Law Blind Always
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"
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Motivational Good Me Man
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
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Man Nonviolence Sword Who
"Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system."
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Change Capitalism Rich Way
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man You Hate Nonviolence
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Equality Day Together Will
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Respect Law Community Legal
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Shadow Brainy Everything See Cast
"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."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice Law Progress Purpose
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Disappointment Deep Where

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