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

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  • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
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  • I have a dream, that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by their character.
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  • 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.
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  • I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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  • I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
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  • I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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  • I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
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  • I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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  • If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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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 a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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  • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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  • 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.
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  • Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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  • 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.
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  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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  • Mankind 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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  • Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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  • 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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  • Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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