Martin Luther King Jr Quotes And Sayings

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“There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who assert that evil means can lead to good ends are deceiving themselves.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

“We must use time creatively.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
– 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.

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

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