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.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
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
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.
Of all the forms of inequality, Injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
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.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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.
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.
Violence is not only impractical but immoral. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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