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

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.""The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.""Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.""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.""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.""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.""True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.""Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.""Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.""Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not co""Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.""Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' ""There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.""I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.""We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.""We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.""Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.""In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.""When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village 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""Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

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