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
love life marriage
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
life mean cutting
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
inspirational religious responsibility
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
healing sacrifice two
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
socialism rich poor
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
self jail world
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
life men creative
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.
world climate tragic
There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
people silence brutality
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
humanity dignity building
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,
happy-life mind-your-own-business life-is
The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
inspirational independent eight
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.
strong men rights
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
christian church states
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.