List Of 50 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes:
#1 “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
#2 “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
#3 “It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
#4 “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
#5 “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
#6 “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
#7 “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
#8 “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
#9 “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
#10 “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
#11 “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
#12 “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
#13 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
#14 “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”
#15 “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
#16 “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
#17 “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
#18 “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
#19 “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
#20 “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
#21 “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
#22 “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
#23 “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
#24 “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
#25 “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
#26 “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
#27 “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
#28 “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.”
#29 “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
#30 “There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
#31 “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
#32 “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
#33 “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
#34 “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
#35 “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
#36 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
#37 “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
#38 “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
#39 “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
#40 “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
#41 “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
#42 “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
#43 “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
#44 “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
#45 “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
#46 “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.”
#47 “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
#48 “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
#49 “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
#50 “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”