Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Of all the forms of inequality, Injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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 your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.
– Martin Luther King Jr

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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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