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Committed Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
- I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are…
- I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want…
- I just want to leave a committed life behind.
- People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment…
- I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements…
- I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to…
- It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white…
- Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was…
- The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to…
- Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was…
More Committed Quotes
- I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. — Lance Armstrong
- To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. — James A. Baldwin
- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch
- Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own… — Joseph Addison
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working… — Benazir Bhutto
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all… — Steven Biko
- It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. — Josh Billings
- People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't… — Emily Blunt