Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth15 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual freedom men
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"
right-thing
Is is always time to do the right thing.
hate love-you thinking
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. ... For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.
jobs men deny
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
jail voting
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.
normal talent achieve
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.
hurt giving suffering
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
sacrifice men may
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
opportunity sunlight
My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.
choices violence modern
The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.
religious minorities world
The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.
faith men faith-in-god
My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
christian christianity mandates
We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.
christian moving would-be
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 nonconformist.