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
dream men lasts
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
violence immoral
Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
unusual-things victory defeated
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
procrastination laziness
How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!
existential speak moments
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
germany comfort never-forget
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
unity uniformity
Unity has never meant uniformity.
peace struggle winning
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
peace race arms
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
peace men goal
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
agony giving society
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.
work-out way spirituality
We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.
land justice long
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 anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.
civil-rights revolution retreat
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by....