" 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., Strength to Love, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. "
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" 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 the law. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. "
Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" The time is always right to do what is right. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. "
Martin Luther King
" In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. "
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. "
Martin Luther King
" 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. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" 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. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force… If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. "
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as 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 and say, “Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" 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. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. "
Martin Luther King
" Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind 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., December 11, 1964 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. "
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
" When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. "
Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)
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