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
suits conviction protest
Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest.
compassionate great-nations nations
Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
thieves stills
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
rising-up evil agitation
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
bridges suffering progress
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
our-society revolution easier
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
right-thing
Is is always time to do the right thing.
painful difficult walks
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.
and-love nonviolence
We must follow nonviolence and love.
lynching government people
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
one-thing
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
july i-have-a-dream-speech hampshire
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
arms divine
We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.
revolutionary rioting
Rioting is not revolutionary.