Martin Luther King Jr Quotes And Sayings

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“History is the struggle between good and evil.”
– 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 the appalling silence of the good people.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that l is out of harmony with the moral law.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have come to see that America is in danger of losing her soul, Something must happen to awaken the dozing soul of America before it is too late.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

“I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And 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.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”
– 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.

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

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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 society.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends…. It is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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 pretty important.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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