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History Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
- Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the…
- And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a…
- One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
- History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising…
- History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad…
- The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
- The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict…
- White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and…
- Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's…
- We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
- One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society…
- If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have…
- We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of…
- I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement…
- In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with…
- History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
- We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent…
- I have a dream
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough