50 MLK Quotes – Martin Luther King Jr’s Wisest Words!
Looking for the best MLK quotes? These 50 epic Martin Luther King Jr quotes will show you what true wisdom is all about.
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1 – Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
2 – We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
3 – I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
4 – 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. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
5 – The time is always right to do what is right. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
6 – Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
7 – Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
8 – True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
9 – One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
10 – I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
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11 – Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
12 – Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
13 – Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
14 – There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
15 – Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? MLK Martin Luther King Jr
16 – Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
17- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
18 – Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
19 – True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
20 – Love is the greatest force in the universe. It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. He who loves is a participant in the being of God. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
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21 – Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
22 – You know, a lot of people don’t love themselves. And they go through life with deep and haunting emotional conflicts. So the length of life means that you must love yourself. And you know what loving yourself also means? It means that you’ve got to accept yourself. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
23 – The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
24 – There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
25 – 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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
26 – I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
27- You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
28 – We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
29 – A right delayed is a right denied. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
30 – 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. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
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31 – I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
32 – 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. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
33 – A lie cannot live. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
34 – We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
35 – Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
36 – Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
37- Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
38 – Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
39 – We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now because I’ve been to the mountaintop… I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
40 – It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
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41 – Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
42 – Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
43 – The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
44 – Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
45 – Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, “Love or perish.” Hate is too great a burden to bear. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
46 – I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
47- For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
48 – Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
49 – Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
50 – If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say “We must not wage war.” It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: We must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS:The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
BONUS: Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. MLK Martin Luther King Jr
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Frances Vidakovic
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