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King, Martin L. QUOTES

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  • In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.



  • Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

  • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  • If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  • Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

  • 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.

  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  • If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 street sweeper who did his job well

  • I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

  • People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

  • We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.


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