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
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.
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.
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.
unusual-things victory defeated
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
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.
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.
kings revenge hate
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
life-and-love people great-people
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
kings perspective helping
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.