Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

Biography: Martin Luther King Jr. is known for his pivotal role in the American c... more Biography: Martin Luther King Jr. is known for his pivotal role in the American civil rights movement. A Baptist minister and activist, he championed nonviolent protest against racial segregation, significantly impacting the fight for racial equality. His famous "I Have a Dream" speech and leadership during the Montgomery Bus Boycott remain inspirational milestones. less

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.""He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.""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.""Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.""We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.""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.""Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.""We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.""If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.""No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.""Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.""Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.""The bell of truth sounds loudest in times of moral tension and decision.""The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.""There comes a time when silence is betrayal.""We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.""Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.""Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.""I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.""A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

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