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Famous Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
“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.”
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.”
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
“The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.”
“We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.”