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
decision progress faces
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
sad justice elbows
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
peace freedom war
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
peace war science
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
music time use
We must use time creatively.
relationship brother men
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
funny war tomorrow
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
heart creativity creative
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
life lying acceptance
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
life respect men
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
direct-action alive surface
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
white derivatives crime
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
powerful war greatness
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
love life marriage
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.