Read in the list below 25 of the most inspiring quotes of Martin Luther King, Jr!
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
- “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.”
- “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
- “I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
- “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
- “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
- “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”
- “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
- “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
- “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
- “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
- “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
- “On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”
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