Inspirational Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr · Page 3

The Universe is on the side of Justice

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You're as good as anybody.

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Don't let anybody take your manhood.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But by all means, keep moving.

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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

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Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

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Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

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To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

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By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in…

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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

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We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

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My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

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It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

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There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

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Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

— Martin Luther King, Jr