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Quotes by Martin Luther King - (31 quotes)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Acceptance category:

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Beginning category:

You don't have to see the top of the staircase to take the first step. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Creativity category:

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Danger category:

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Difficulty category:

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Disappointment category:

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Disappointment category:

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Dissatisfaction category:

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Education category:

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.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Excellence category:

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Excellence category:

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Faith category:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Fear category:

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Friendship category:

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Greatness category:

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Humanity category:

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Leadership category:

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Love category:

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Love category:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Masters category:

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Morality category:

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Peace category:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Power category:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Profession category:

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.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Religion category:

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Silence category:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Thinking category:

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. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Time category:

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Travel category:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Truth category:

A lie cannot live. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. - From the Words category:

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)