Martin Luther King Quotes



    “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” 
- Martin Luther King Jr.

    “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

  “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.” 
- Martin Luther King Jr.

   “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

   “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “The time is always right to do what is right.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


    “The time is always right to do what is right.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


   “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

   “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 



    “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

    “A right delayed is a right denied.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

    “When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

   “There is no gain without struggle.” 
- Martin Luther King Jr.

     “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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- Martin Luther King, Jr.


   “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.,

    “A lie cannot live.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


    “Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

    “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


  “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” 
- Martin Luther King Jr.

    “Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.” 
- Martin Luther King Jr.,

   “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.” 
- Martin Luther King Jr