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.
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.
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.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. – 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.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. – 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
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.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Of all the forms of inequality, Injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. – 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.
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.
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.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – 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.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. – 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.
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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