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 th…
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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About Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights in the United States through the use of nonviolence and sometimes civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Martin Luther King, Jr.We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. W…
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man…