16 Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr That Changed The World

16Quotes fromMartin Luther King Jr.That Changed The World

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"God called the grandson of a slave on his father’s side, and the grandson of a man born during the Civil War on his mother’s side, and said to him: Martin Luther, speak to America about war and peace; about social justice and racial discrimination; about its obligation to the poor; and about nonviolence as a way of perfecting social change in a world of brutality and war."

- Benjamin Mays, Eulogy of Martin Luther King Jr. April, 1968


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.”

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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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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.”

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

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Intelligence plus character— that is the goal oftrue education.”

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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

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

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

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That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind.”

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

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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

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16 Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr That Changed The World

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