Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
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Famous Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.”
“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?”
Source: The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement
“Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.”
“If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree”
“Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others”
“Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind”
“What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence”
“If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living”
“The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world”
“A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy”
“Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone”
“From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action”
“I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Source: The Trumpet of Conscience
Source: All Labor Has Dignity
Source: Why We Can't Wait
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.”
“I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.”