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The best Quotes by Martin Luther King
People
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
10
Faith
It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.
9
Character
Honesty
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
6
Love
Hatred
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
6
Friendship
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.
5
Teams
Brothers
Community
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
3
Hope
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.
3
Love
Hatred
Wisdom
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
2
Tolerance
USA
Independence Day
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
2
Hatred
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.
2
Progress
Self-Confidence
Motivation
Positive Quotes
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
2
Revolution
Opinions
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Rede in St. Louis
2
War
Peace
Brothers
Volkstrauertag
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
during Montgomery Bus Boycotts
2
Peace
Justice
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
2
Justice
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.
2
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.
1
Love
Hatred
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
1
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.
1
Freedom
USA
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
1
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.
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.
Education
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Revolution
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.
Peace
Hatred
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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Morality
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Bed
Hate burns fast and bright, and it might make you feel empowered for a while, but eventually it consumes whatever vessel it fuels.
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Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.
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Georgia
Atlanta
What did Tennessee?
Same thing Arkansas.
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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
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8
Love
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
Albus Dumbledore
in
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Power
Revolution
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
1
Peace
Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.
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in
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Friendship
Blood
I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers - because you did too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world, you'll always be with me. And you'll always be my brother.
Dominic Toretto in
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5
Brothers
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
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22
Tolerance
Kindness
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.
Nelson Mandela
3
USA
Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.
Pain / Nagato
in
Naruto
19
Revenge
Justice
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
Padmé Amidala
in
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
9
Freedom
Yeah. But seriously, a nutless monkey could do your job.
Les Grossman in
Tropic Thunder
Our secretary of health and human sacrifice, RFK Jr.
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(
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) - May 2025
RFK Jr.
For every $1 we could raise, they'll remove one pound of plastic from the ocean. We're trying to raise $30 million by the end of the year.
Mark Rober
in
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- November 2021
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
Alveda King
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
Leia Organa
in
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5
Faith
Hope
Sun
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