Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth15 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes about
- suits
- conviction
- protest
- right-thing
- poison
- abnormal
- problem
- unusual-things
- victory
- defeated
- self-esteem
- artist
- streets
- personality
- schizophrenic
- bridges
- suffering
- progress
- compassionate
- great-nations
- nations
- revolutionary
- rioting
- first-love
- generosity
- feelings
- thieves
- stills
- justice-for-all
- justice
first-love firsts
Whom you would change, you must first love.
justice defense bombs
Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.
dream differences great-day
Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
dream justice keep-dreaming
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
eerie our-generation silence
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
my-best-friend oscars wilde
Some of my best friends are Oscar Wilde.
love-life hatred disease
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
democracy individualism communism
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.
ghetto men white-man
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.
one-day needs helping
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
justice want matter
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.
dream oasis justice
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
i-am-what-i-am
I am what I am because of who we all are.
justice sides universe
The Universe is on the side of Justice