Quotes by King Jr. Martin Luther

"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."

King Jr. Martin Luther on relationship   

"That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."

King Jr. Martin Luther on revenge
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"The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evolution   

"Riots are the voices of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evolution   

"In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evolution
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"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

King Jr. Martin Luther on right and rightness
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"We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."

King Jr. Martin Luther on science   

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

King Jr. Martin Luther on service
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

King Jr. Martin Luther on brotherhood
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"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

King Jr. Martin Luther on character
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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

King Jr. Martin Luther on sympathy   

"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

King Jr. Martin Luther on thoughts and thinking
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"We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things."

King Jr. Martin Luther on time
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"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."

King Jr. Martin Luther on tragedies
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will."

King Jr. Martin Luther on understanding
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land."

King Jr. Martin Luther on vision   

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

King Jr. Martin Luther on war   

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

King Jr. Martin Luther on work
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"Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists."

King Jr. Martin Luther on churches   

"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."

King Jr. Martin Luther on consequences   

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

King Jr. Martin Luther on cooperation
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on courage
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

King Jr. Martin Luther on death
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on the future
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"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about that now. I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on uncategorised
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"Free at last, free at lastThank God almightyWe are free at last"

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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. 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. I have a dream today. "

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"Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream. for all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We are still in for the season of suffering. How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever. our God is marching on. "

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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. "

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"I feel that we will continue to have a non-violent movement, and we will continue to find the vast majority of Negroes committed to non-violence, at least as the best tactical approach and from a pragmatic point of view as the best strategy in dealing with the problem of racial injustice. Realism impels me to admit, however, that when there is justice and the pursuit of justice, violence appears, and where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater, and I would like to strongly stress the point that the more we can achieve victories through non-violence, the more it will be possible to keep the non-violent discipline at the center of the movement. But the more we find individuals facing conditions of frustration, conditions of disappointment and seething despair as a result of the slow pace of things and the failure to change conditions, the more it will be possible for the apostles of violence to interfere. "

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"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. "

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"I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of goodwill. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. "

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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

King Jr. Martin Luther on faith
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