Martin Luther King Jr. > Quotes

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“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.

“Pada akhirnya bukan kata-kata menyakitkan dari musuh yang selalu kita ingat, tapi diamnya para sahabat yang dulu mendukung kita. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The Universe is on the side of Justice”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“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.

“I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream / Letter from Birmingham Jail

“Violence is not only impractical but immoral.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“هیچ چیز خطرناکتر از این نیست
که جامعه ای بسازیم که در آن
بیشتر مردم حس کنند
هیچ سهمی در آن ندارند

مردمی که حس میکنند
سهمی در جامعه دارند
از آن جامعه محافظت می کنند

ولی اگر
چنین احساسی نداشته باشند ، نا خودآگاه میخواهند آن جامعه را نابود کنند”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The time is always right to do the right thing.”
― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

“And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your life. And every time you set out to be good, there's something pulling on you, telling you to be evil. It's going on in your life. Every time you set out to love, something keeps pulling on you, trying to get you to hate. Every time you set out to be kind and say nice things about people, something is pulling on you to be jealous and envious and to spread evil gossip about them. There's a civil war going on. There is a schizophrenia, as the psychologists or the psychiatrists would call it, going on within all of us. And there are times that all of us know somehow that there is a Mr. Hyde and a Dr. Jekyll in us...There's a tension at the heart of human nature. And whenever we set out to dream our dreams and to build our temples, we must be honest enough to recognize it.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Unity has never meant uniformity.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the fires of justice. Let us be dissatisfied until they who live on the outskirts of Hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heap of history and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home. Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be
transformed into the bright tomorrows of quality integrated education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Great Speeches

“It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“unearned suffering is redemptive.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.