--- title: "Best Life Quotations by Martin Luther King, Jr" description: "137 Life quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. Plus more from Martin Luther King, Jr and more Life sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_admire_i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t_2148456.jpg" --- > [I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t-want-to-be-one-i-don-t-want/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_admire_i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t_2148456.jpg) > [I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-think-the-first-reason-that-we-should-love-our-enemies-and-i-think/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/martin-luther-king-jr-127_enemy_i-think-the-first-reason-that-we-should_2501135.png) > [It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/it-is-not-only-poverty-that-torments-the-negro-it-is-the-fact-of/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/martin-luther-king-jr-127_affluence_it-is-not-only-poverty-that-torments-the_954619.jpg) > [Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/even-though-i-have-never-had-an-abrupt-conversion-experience-religion/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/789/martin-luther-king-jr-127_been-real_even-though-i-have-never-had-an-abrupt-c_133406.jpg) > [The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-profit-motive-when-it-is-the-sole-basis-of-an-economic-system/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_ambition_the-profit-motive-when-it-is-the-sole-ba_3168581.jpg) > [It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/it-really-boils-down-to-this-that-all-life-is-interrelated-we-are-all/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_it-really-boils-down-to-this-that-all-li_976191.png) > [When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism --…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/when-we-see-social-relationships-controlled-everywhere-by-the/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_altruism_when-we-see-social-relationships-control_732246.jpg) > [Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/unless-you-have-found-something-in-life-to-live-for-that-is-more/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/martin-luther-king-jr-127_another-man_unless-you-have-found-something-in-life_231101.jpg) > [Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/capitalism-is-always-in-danger-of-inspiring-men-to-be-more-concerned-2/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_automobile_capitalism-is-always-in-danger-of-inspir_941490.jpg) > [On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/on-some-positions-cowardice-asks-the-question-is-it-expedient-and/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_conscience_on-some-positions-cowardice-asks-the-que_1635488.jpg) > [Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/don-t-ever-let-anyone-pull-you-so-low-as-to-hate-them-we-must-use-the/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/martin-luther-king-jr-127_compassion_don-t-ever-let-anyone-pull-you-so-low-as_2422046.png) > [The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-curse-of-poverty-has-no-justification-in-our-age-it-is-socially/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/martin-luther-king-jr-127_abolition_the-curse-of-poverty-has-no-justificatio_2788260.jpg) > [Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/love-is-basic-for-the-very-survival-of-mankind-i-m-convinced-that/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/martin-luther-king-jr-127_absolutes_love-is-basic-for-the-very-survival-of-m_495224.png) > [We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/we-are-now-faced-with-the-fact-my-friends-that-tomorrow-is-today-we-3/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a15/martin-luther-king-jr-127_beautiful_we-are-now-faced-with-the-fact-my-friend_2240609.jpg) > [In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/in-a-real-sense-all-life-is-inter-related-all-men-are-caught-in-an/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_in-a-real-sense-all-life-is-inter-relate_282955.png) > [But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/but-we-are-gravely-mistaken-to-think-that-christianity-protects-us/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_bears_but-we-are-gravely-mistaken-to-think-tha_856643.jpg) > [Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/why-should-there-be-hunger-and-deprivation-in-any-land-in-any-city-at/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/martin-luther-king-jr-127_cities_why-should-there-be-hunger-and-deprivati_2159956.jpg) ## Other authors on Life - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 2,086 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nishan-panwar-14.jpg) Nishan Panwar 1,901 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/nishan-panwar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 1,045 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-ritu-ghatourey-5.jpg) Ritu Ghatourey 893 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/ritu-ghatourey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 659 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/frederick-lenz/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 630 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-anurag-prakash-ray-38.jpg) Anurag Prakash Ray 621 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/anurag-prakash-ray/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-maraboli-87325.jpg) Steve Maraboli 550 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/steve-maraboli/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-melchor-lim-61.jpg) Melchor Lim 538 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/melchor-lim/) - [Mehmet Murat ildan 452 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 432 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 430 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ## More by Martin Luther King, Jr > [The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-strong-man-holds-in-a-living-blend-strongly-marked-opposites/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/our-nation-was-born-in-genocide-when-it-embraced-the-doctrine-that/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/somewhere-somebody-must-have-some-sense-men-must-see-that-force/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/every-genuine-expression-of-love-grows-out-of-a-consistent-and-total/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/we-must-remember-that-intelligence-is-not-enough-intelligence-plus/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [I’ve been to the Mountaintop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-ve-been-to-the-mountaintop/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-supreme-task-is-to-organize-and-unite-people-so-that-their-anger/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-great-issue-of-life-is-to-harness-the-drum-major-instinct/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/somebody-must-have-sense-enough-and-morality-enough-to-cut-off-the/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/darkness-is-only-driven-out-with-light-not-more-darkness/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/what-seems-so-necessary-today-may-not-even-be-desirable-tomorrow/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-negro-cannot-win-the-respect-of-his-oppressor-by-acquiescing-he/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-majority-of-the-negroes-who-took-part-in-the-year-long-boycott-of/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/whenever-you-are-engaged-in-work-that-serves-humanity-and-is-for-the/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) > [I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-have-a-dream-that-one-day-even-the-state-of-mississippi-a-desert/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/#itemlist", "name": "Best Life Quotations by Martin Luther King, Jr", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t-want-to-be-one-i-don-t-want/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_admire_i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t_2148456.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_admire_i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t_2148456.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_admire_i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t_2148456.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/i-think-the-first-reason-that-we-should-love-our-enemies-and-i-think/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/martin-luther-king-jr-127_enemy_i-think-the-first-reason-that-we-should_2501135.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/martin-luther-king-jr-127_enemy_i-think-the-first-reason-that-we-should_2501135.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/martin-luther-king-jr-127_enemy_i-think-the-first-reason-that-we-should_2501135.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/it-is-not-only-poverty-that-torments-the-negro-it-is-the-fact-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/martin-luther-king-jr-127_affluence_it-is-not-only-poverty-that-torments-the_954619.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/martin-luther-king-jr-127_affluence_it-is-not-only-poverty-that-torments-the_954619.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/martin-luther-king-jr-127_affluence_it-is-not-only-poverty-that-torments-the_954619.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/even-though-i-have-never-had-an-abrupt-conversion-experience-religion/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/789/martin-luther-king-jr-127_been-real_even-though-i-have-never-had-an-abrupt-c_133406.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/789/martin-luther-king-jr-127_been-real_even-though-i-have-never-had-an-abrupt-c_133406.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/789/martin-luther-king-jr-127_been-real_even-though-i-have-never-had-an-abrupt-c_133406.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-profit-motive-when-it-is-the-sole-basis-of-an-economic-system/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_ambition_the-profit-motive-when-it-is-the-sole-ba_3168581.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_ambition_the-profit-motive-when-it-is-the-sole-ba_3168581.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_ambition_the-profit-motive-when-it-is-the-sole-ba_3168581.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/it-really-boils-down-to-this-that-all-life-is-interrelated-we-are-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_it-really-boils-down-to-this-that-all-li_976191.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_it-really-boils-down-to-this-that-all-li_976191.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_it-really-boils-down-to-this-that-all-li_976191.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/when-we-see-social-relationships-controlled-everywhere-by-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_altruism_when-we-see-social-relationships-control_732246.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_altruism_when-we-see-social-relationships-control_732246.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_altruism_when-we-see-social-relationships-control_732246.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/unless-you-have-found-something-in-life-to-live-for-that-is-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/martin-luther-king-jr-127_another-man_unless-you-have-found-something-in-life_231101.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/martin-luther-king-jr-127_another-man_unless-you-have-found-something-in-life_231101.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/martin-luther-king-jr-127_another-man_unless-you-have-found-something-in-life_231101.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/capitalism-is-always-in-danger-of-inspiring-men-to-be-more-concerned-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_automobile_capitalism-is-always-in-danger-of-inspir_941490.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_automobile_capitalism-is-always-in-danger-of-inspir_941490.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/martin-luther-king-jr-127_automobile_capitalism-is-always-in-danger-of-inspir_941490.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/on-some-positions-cowardice-asks-the-question-is-it-expedient-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_conscience_on-some-positions-cowardice-asks-the-que_1635488.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_conscience_on-some-positions-cowardice-asks-the-que_1635488.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_conscience_on-some-positions-cowardice-asks-the-que_1635488.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/don-t-ever-let-anyone-pull-you-so-low-as-to-hate-them-we-must-use-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/martin-luther-king-jr-127_compassion_don-t-ever-let-anyone-pull-you-so-low-as_2422046.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/martin-luther-king-jr-127_compassion_don-t-ever-let-anyone-pull-you-so-low-as_2422046.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/martin-luther-king-jr-127_compassion_don-t-ever-let-anyone-pull-you-so-low-as_2422046.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-curse-of-poverty-has-no-justification-in-our-age-it-is-socially/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/martin-luther-king-jr-127_abolition_the-curse-of-poverty-has-no-justificatio_2788260.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/martin-luther-king-jr-127_abolition_the-curse-of-poverty-has-no-justificatio_2788260.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/martin-luther-king-jr-127_abolition_the-curse-of-poverty-has-no-justificatio_2788260.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/love-is-basic-for-the-very-survival-of-mankind-i-m-convinced-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/martin-luther-king-jr-127_absolutes_love-is-basic-for-the-very-survival-of-m_495224.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/martin-luther-king-jr-127_absolutes_love-is-basic-for-the-very-survival-of-m_495224.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/martin-luther-king-jr-127_absolutes_love-is-basic-for-the-very-survival-of-m_495224.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/we-are-now-faced-with-the-fact-my-friends-that-tomorrow-is-today-we-3/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a15/martin-luther-king-jr-127_beautiful_we-are-now-faced-with-the-fact-my-friend_2240609.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a15/martin-luther-king-jr-127_beautiful_we-are-now-faced-with-the-fact-my-friend_2240609.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a15/martin-luther-king-jr-127_beautiful_we-are-now-faced-with-the-fact-my-friend_2240609.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/in-a-real-sense-all-life-is-inter-related-all-men-are-caught-in-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_in-a-real-sense-all-life-is-inter-relate_282955.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_in-a-real-sense-all-life-is-inter-relate_282955.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/martin-luther-king-jr-127_caught_in-a-real-sense-all-life-is-inter-relate_282955.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/but-we-are-gravely-mistaken-to-think-that-christianity-protects-us/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_bears_but-we-are-gravely-mistaken-to-think-tha_856643.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_bears_but-we-are-gravely-mistaken-to-think-tha_856643.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/martin-luther-king-jr-127_bears_but-we-are-gravely-mistaken-to-think-tha_856643.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/why-should-there-be-hunger-and-deprivation-in-any-land-in-any-city-at/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/martin-luther-king-jr-127_cities_why-should-there-be-hunger-and-deprivati_2159956.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/martin-luther-king-jr-127_cities_why-should-there-be-hunger-and-deprivati_2159956.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/martin-luther-king-jr-127_cities_why-should-there-be-hunger-and-deprivati_2159956.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the…” — Martin Luther King, Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/page/4/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/page/4/", "name": "Life Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr · Page 4", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/martin-luther-king-jr-127_admire_i-admire-the-good-samaritan-but-i-don-t_2148456.jpg" }, "description": "137 Life quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. Plus more from Martin Luther King, Jr and more Life sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/page/4/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/page/4/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Life", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martin-luther-king-jr/page/4/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```