Quotes by Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

American preacher

Lived from: 1929 - 1968

Category: Theologians and clergy Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 15 january 1929 Died: 4 april 1968

  • Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
  • Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
  • Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
  • We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
  • Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
  • Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
  • No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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  • Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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  • Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
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  • Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
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  • Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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  • In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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  • All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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  • Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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  • A riot is the language of the unheard.
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  • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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  • A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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  • A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
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  • And I believe it because somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
    Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
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  • At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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  • Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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  • He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
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  • Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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What are the most famous quotes from Martin Luther King?

The two most famous quotes from Martin Luther King are:

  • "Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
  • "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love."

When did Martin Luther King live?

Martin Luther King was born in 1929 and died in the year 1968.