QUOTES by Martin Luther King
Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.
The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
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.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Stumbling and groping through the wilderness finally must be replaced by a planned, organized and orderly march.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
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.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership… Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
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.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
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.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
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.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
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?’
Quote by -Martin Luther King