Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

• And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational
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  Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Love

• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Law

• No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Really, Alive

• A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Death

• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Humanity, Inspirational, Life, Service

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Love

• I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational

• Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• 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.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Equality

• If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, 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 a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational, Work

• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Love
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  Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational, Uncategorized

  Tags in Silence, Begin
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  True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Conflict, Merely, Tension
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  In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Enemies, Silence, Friends
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  A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social. Uplift is approaching spiritual death.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Military, Spiritual

• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Dream, Humanity, Ideals, Justice, Opportunity, Racism

  Tags in Solidarity, Human Rights, Equality, Character, Creed, Credo

• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam 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

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Equality, War, Creed, Credo
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  The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Right

Martin Luther King Jr (163)

Birth:	15th January, 1929
Death:	4th April, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Clergyman, Leader, Writer

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