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
greatness determined
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
inspirational civil-rights speak
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
suicide exercise past
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.
life motivational wisdom
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
night effort sunrise
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
brotherhood gold silver
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
age poverty curse
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
motivational respect kings
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
change kings people
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
covered-up evil slavery
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
morning reality quality
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
people distribution-of-wealth poverty
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
country greatness russia
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
life time age
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.