Top Quotes by Martin Luther King
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
The time is always right to do what is right.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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.
Top Quotes by Martin Luther King part 2
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
The time is always right to do what’s right.
If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Keep moving forward, even if you must crawl.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
We know that to fully realize our dream of equality and justice, love must guide our actions.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.