Martin Luther King, Jr
Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968) was a clergyman and US civil rights movement leader. He advocated nonviolence as a means for social change. He was a great orator. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.Wisdom & Quotes
- I have a dream.
- He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
- Morality cannot be legislated but behaviour can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
- Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
- All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- The church must be remained that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
- Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- To be a Negro in America is to hope aginst hope.
- To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
- So when in this day I see the leaders of nations again talking peace while preparing for war, I take fearful pause.
- If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a non-conformist.
- There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the blackness of corroding despair.
- When evil men plot, good men must plan.
When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
- Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfilment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
- A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Opressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
- A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man.
- I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Discrimination is a hellbound that gnaws at Negros in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
- In this revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
- I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free."
- (Man) has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
- God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.
- We must use time creatively, and forever realise that the time is always ripe to do right.
- To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
Jeanne Moreau