Martin Luther King Jr Quotes Page 2
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived…”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Music |
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Age |
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fear |
“There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Time |
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
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Wisdom |
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Believe |
“We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hope |
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Adversity |
“Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Acceptance Speech for Nobel Peace Prize
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“I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘isness’ of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal ‘oughtness’ that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. 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.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Acceptance Speech for Nobel Peace Prize
Brotherhood |
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream
Motivation |
“A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Loving Your Enemies
Good |
“We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Loving Your Enemies
New Beginnings |
“This is the power that God gives you. He doesn’t say that you’re going to escape tension; he doesn’t say that you’re going to escape disappointment; he doesn’t say that you’re going to escape trials and tribulations. But what religion does say is this: that if you have faith in God, that God has the power to give you a kind of inner equilibrium through your pain.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Guidelines for a Constructive Church
God |
“. . . we must discover what we are called to do. And once we discover it we should set out to do it with all of the strength and all of the power that we have in our systems. And after we’ve discovered what God called us to do, after we’ve discovered our life’s work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn’t do it any better. Now this does not mean that everybody will do the so-called big, recognized things of life. Very few people will rise to the heights of genius in the arts and the sciences; very few collectively will rise to certain professions. Most of us will have to be content to work in the fields and in the factories and on the streets. But we must see the dignity of all labor.”
Martin Luther King Jr., The Three Dimensions Of A Complete Life
Work |
“Now the breadth of life is the outward concern for the welfare of others, as I said. And a man has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his own individual concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
Martin Luther King Jr., The Three Dimensions Of A Complete Life
Life |
“Somehow in life we must know that we must seek first the kingdom of God, and then all of those other things – clothes, houses, cars – will be added unto us. But the problem is all too many people fail to put first things first. They don’t keep a sharp line of demarcation between the things of life and the ends of life.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool
Failure |
“When the church is true to its nature, it says, “Whosoever will, let him come.” And it does not supposed to satisfy the perverted uses of the drum major instinct. It’s the one place where everybody should be the same, standing before a common master and savior. And a recognition grows out of this – that all men are brothers because they are children of a common father.”
Martin Luther King Jr., The Drum Major Instinct
Children |
“Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
Commitment |
“Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
Persistence |
Quotes About Martin Luther King Jr.:
“King dreamed of a time that people of all colors, shapes, and sizes could live in harmony and not fear each other. His legacy is strong to this day. He was able to make waves in a world that didn’t even want him to exist.” Anna Revell, Martin Luther King, Jr. Dare To Dream: The True Story of a Civil Rights Icon
Dream |
“Perhaps King’s greatest spiritual gift was faithfulness to his vocation to preach the Word of God in all circumstances, including personal danger and declining popularity.” Richard Lischer, The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
Faith |
“Toward the end of his life Dr. King displayed increasing urgency as he spoke the truth about what he discerned and resisted those who sought to ghettoize his concern for social justice and peace.” Marian Wright Edelman, The Trumpet of Conscience
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