15 Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

15 Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.


1. We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

2. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

4. 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.

5. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

6. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

7. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

8. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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

10. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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

12. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

13. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

14. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

15. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.


Martin Luther King, Jr.
From speeches and books during his public life in the 1960s http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_luther_king_jr.html

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