The best Quotes by Martin Luther King

The best Quotes by Martin Luther King

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

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It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.

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Character Honesty

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

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Teams Brothers Community

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that!
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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Love Hatred Wisdom

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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Tolerance USA Independence Day

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.

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Progress Self-Confidence Motivation Positive Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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Revolution Opinions

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Rede in St. Louis

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War Peace Brothers Volkstrauertag

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

during Montgomery Bus Boycotts

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

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Vision Tolerance Human Rights 1963 Famous Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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Love Friendship Enemies & Opponents

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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Humanity Weapons Science Morality Spirituality

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom Revolution

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Wise Sayings Helping

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Quotes about Martin Luther King

Lazarus: "Took a whole lot of tryin, just to get up that hill, but now we up in the big leagues."
Alpa Chino: "That's the theme songs from The Jeffersons."
Lazarus: "Just 'cause it's a theme song doesn't mean it's not true."

Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder

If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would probably watch the news and go, "let me be more specific about this dream I had."

Jimmy Kimmel in Jimmy Kimmel Live! - January 2021

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Alveda King

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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