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
religious academic nonconformist
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
tension not-afraid creative-tension
I am not afraid of the word tension.
self-esteem artist streets
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
dream america way
We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
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.
effects
Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.
growth type tension
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
christian morning sunday
It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
moving-forward moving keep-moving-forward
You have to keep moving forward
obstacles surrender submissive
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
evil segregation ministers
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
law long mind
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
thieves stills
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.