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
helping-others community-service charity
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
education wisdom lying
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
dying trying fit
Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
hands weapons evening
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
inspirational brother art
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
pain emotional thinking
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
drinking coffee moving
I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!
stars dark enough
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
peace war believe
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
love heart emotional
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
men yesterday giving
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
change strength inspiring
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
greatness determined fame
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
agony trying life-is
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable