Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.
My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.
It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.
I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
