69 result(s) for Famous Martin Luther King Quotes.
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
"The mountains of despair are not without their peaks of joy."
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable."
"I have a dream that one day little children will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
"One who breaks an unjust 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 very highest respect for law."
"If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."
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"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values—that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all truth is based upon moral order."
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
"It's always the right time to do the right thing."
"We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of 'interposition' and 'nullification' — one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
"We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
"A right delayed is a right denied."
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
"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."
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which strikes without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."
"The highest form of education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our lives in harmony with all existence."
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
"There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
"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."
"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."
"It's not enough to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps. It is the first man’s responsibility to provide those bootstraps."
"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."
"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."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the welfare of a person or an animal is at stake."
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"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."
"A justice delayed is a justice denied."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
"It is not enough to be right; we must be gracious."
"Life is a continual unfolding of learning and understanding."
"It is time for us to move from the world of business as usual to a world where human dignity is of utmost importance."
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives."
"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.'"
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
"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."
"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a sword that heals."
"I like people, and I love to serve people."
"You can’t be a good neighbor if you don’t love your neighbor."
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for."
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
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