Martin Luther King Jr Quotes And Sayings

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“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Life‘s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Most people … are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority of opinion, not thermostats that transform or regulate the temperature of society.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is force to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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