Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes about Inspirational - Page 2

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.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Hero, Evil

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.26, Beacon Press

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Compassion

Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Peace, War

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

"Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Civil Rights, Speak

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Dying, Found

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Independent, Eight

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Death, Faith

Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

Seeing is not always believing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Believe, Vision

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Peace, Government

There is no gain without struggle.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Struggle, Gains

When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Morning, Jobs

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, People, Disrespect

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, God

Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Hate, Justice

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press