Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
Born: Jan 15, 1929
Died: Apr 4, 1968
Good Justice Love Man People Will
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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.
You Reality Whatever Ought I Can Structure Directly Indirectly Never Until Affects Interrelated
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brainy Everything See Shadow Cast Which
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom Time Do The Right Thing Law Old Everybody Right Thing Eye Eye For An Eye About Blind Always Leaves The Right Thing Right Thing
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work Freedom You Man Change Struggle Ride Back Our Unless Bent Backs Must Through Does Inevitability Continuous Roll Wheels Straighten Your
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.
Life Work Man Better Job Whatever Living Unborn Could Dead Well His Should Your
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr.
You Man Hate Physical Spirit Only Also Him Nonviolence Shoot Refuse Means Avoiding Internal Violence External
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.
Day Together Equality Will Sit One Day Dream Table Able Brotherhood Sons Red Hills Georgia Owners Former Slave Slaves
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good People Will Understanding More Shallow Absolute Misunderstanding Than Frustrating Ill
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.
Justice Progress Law Become Dams Dangerously Law And Order Structured Purpose Fail Block Exist Establishing Order Social Social Progress Flow
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.
God Me You People Will Seen Promised Promised Land I Want You Allowed He Over Know Looked Go Mountain Get May Just Want Land Tonight
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice Respect Legal Reality Law Submit Community Unjust Penalty Willingly Tells Individual Highest Over Him Arouse Accepts Imprisonment Order Breaks Who Expressing Conscience
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice Cause Philanthropist Philanthropy Circumstances Must Economic Make Overlook Commendable Which Necessary
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lies Salvation Hands Human Creatively
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope Justice Peace World Secure Lies Brotherhood Disciplined Dedicated Who Livable
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.
Love Me Man Love Me Law Be True Important Think I Think Pretty True Make Him May Cannot Keep
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. Martin Luther King, Jr.
God You World Think Divine Policeman Force Make Sort His America Anybody Whole Chose
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.
Spiritual Reality Values Control Back Those Moral Must Rediscover Hinges Go Precious Forward Foundations
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time Expediency Cowardice Neither Must Vanity Take Safe Because Politic Nor Question Ask Popular Conscience Right Position
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work Dignity Humanity Excellence Importance Undertaken Labor Should Painstaking
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life Time Tired People Chill November Out Sunlight Pushed Glittering Piercing Left July Get Being Standing
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.
Love Broken Hate World Dark Enemies Evil Abyss Else Our Must Impasse More Shall Annihilation Come Reaction Modern Modern World Producing Wars Chain
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom People Remain Yearning Oppressed Itself Forever Cannot Eventually
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.
Good I Am Power Moral Am Sake Not Interested Interested Right
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Death Spiritual Men Nation Own Purchases Civilization Installment Plan Produce
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art Religion Spiritual Man Live Every Complex Morals Devices Man Lives Ends Literature Which Realm Means Internal Mechanisms Expressed Lives Techniques Every Man External Two
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.
Man Weapon Wounding Powerful Heals Without Nonviolence Just Which Cuts Who Sword
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