Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Related Quotes:

" Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. "

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.

" 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.

" Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. "

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.

" All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. "

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.

" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The time is always right to do what is right. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" A lie cannot live. "

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.

" Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.