Martin Luther King Inspirational Quotes
Martin Luther King Jr was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He was born on 15th Jan, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was faced racism from his early age and those events brought him to a life activism. He began a series of peaceful protest in south that eventually changed many laws and regulations dealings with the equality of African – Americans.
Here are some best and greatest “Martin Luther King Inspirational Quotes”:-
There is a bit of good in the worst of us and there is a bit of bad in the best of us. When mankind realizes this truth, the world would be a better place to dwell upon.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
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.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
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.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
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.
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.
If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of the benefits to be gained from the friendship, rather than for the friend’s own sake. Consequently, the best way to assure oneself that love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy-neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return, but only hostility and persecution.
You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 street sweeper who did his job well.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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