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
hurt pain may
The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
sacrifice men may
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
priorities may today
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.
heart law may
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
white may civil-rights
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
men thinking may
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
half may morality
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
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There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
men may want
I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was
men may criminals
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
heart may opponents
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
heart political may
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
pain may life-is
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
life courage peace
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.