I leave you the best quotes from Martin Luther King about love, education, tolerance, freedom, justice, non-violence, and much more. Luther King was an American pastor and activist who led the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans.
You may also be interested in these phrases of justice or these about freedom.
-In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
-Only in the dark you can see the stars.
-Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.
-If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, still today, I would plant a tree.
-Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the entire staircase.
-We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
-If a man has not discovered something to live for, he is not fit to live.
-We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-No one really knows why he is alive until he knows why he would die.
-The time to do the right thing is always right.
-Nothing in the whole world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and stupid conscience.
-Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
-Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be sued by the oppressed.
-A true leader is not a consensus seeker, but a consensus shaper.
-Your truth will increase as you know how to listen to the truth of others.
-Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
-We must build dams of courage to contain the avalanche of fear.
-Never fall into the temptation of bitterness.
-The time comes when silence is treason.
-There can be no great disappointment where there is no deep love.
-I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls shake hands with little white boys and girls.
-Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle.
-We have learned to fly like birds, to swim like fish; but we have not learned the simple art of living as brothers.
-If you can not fly, run; If you can not run, walk; If you can't walk, crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep going.
-The darkness cannot drive out the darkness; only light can do it. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do it.
-The function of education is to teach to think intensely and critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.
-I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by their character.
-The most persistent and urgent question in life is, what are you doing for others?
-People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear because they don't know each other; they are not known because they have not been communicated.
-Those who do not seek happiness are more likely to find it, because those who seek it forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-I am looking for the day when people are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
-We may all have come in different boats, but we are all in the same boat now.
-We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who lacks the power to forgive is devoid of the ability to love. There is something good in the worst of us and something bad in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less likely to hate our enemies.
-The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
-Dig a tunnel of hope through a dark mountain of hopelessness.
-Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
-Love your enemies.
-Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve… You just have to have a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
-Our scientific power has surpassed our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and wrong men.
-In the center of non-violence is the principle of love.
-Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dams that block the flow of social progress.
-I have decided to continue with love. Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.
-We don't do history. We are made by history.
-I would like to suffer all the humiliations, all the torture, absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence.
-Each man must decide whether to walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
-The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
-The ultimate measure of a man is not where he is in times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
-The greatest tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty of bad people, but the silence of good people.
-We must use time creatively.
-The principle of self-defense, even with weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, not even by Gandhi.
-Peace is not only a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we reach that goal.
-We seldom meet men who voluntarily participate in solid thinking. There is an almost universal search for answers and half solutions. Nothing hurts some people more than having to think.
-I am not interested in power for the sake of power itself, I am interested in power that is moral, correct and good.
-The old law of "an eye for an eye" leaves everyone blind. The time to do the right thing is always right.
-He who passively accepts violence is as involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting is cooperating with it.
-All work that exalts humanity has dignity and importance and must be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
-I believe that the unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word in reality.
-The hope of a safe and livable world rests with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
-Whatever your life's work, do it right. A man must do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could not do better.
-History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of bad people, but the atrocious silence of good people.
-An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-Wars are poor chisels to forge peaceful tomorrows.
-All progress is precarious, and the solution of a problem brings us face to face with another problem.
-The best way to solve any problem is to eliminate its cause.
-Don't let any human being make you so low as to hate him.
-From my Christian training I have obtained my ideals and from Gandhi the technique of action.
-Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon that cuts without hurting and ennobles the man who handles it. It is a sword that heals.
-The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
-A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on social betterment programs is approaching spiritual doom.
-Seeing is not always believing.
-It is not enough to say that we should not make war. You have to love peace and sacrifice for it.
-A lie cannot live.
-Save me from violence, whether it is expressed through the tongue, the fist or the heart.
-If we are going to move forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality depends on moral foundations and that all reality is in spiritual control.
-A postponed right is a denied right.
-Nothing is forgotten more slowly than an offense; and nothing faster than a favor.
-If I help a single person to have hope, I will not have lived in vain.
-Non-violence means not only avoiding external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. Not only do you refuse to shoot a man, you also refuse to hate him.
-A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men, buys its own spiritual death in installments.
-The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
-We have to speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we have to speak.
-The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the middle of an immense ocean of material prosperity.
-I want to be the white man's brother, not his stepbrother.
-If physical death is the price I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
-What affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can't be what I should be until you are what you should be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
-When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you're wrong, you can't be too conservative.
-We should not focus only on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.
-I maintain that whoever breaks a law because his conscience considers it unfair, and voluntarily accepts a prison sentence, in order to raise social conscience against that injustice, actually shows a superior respect for the law.
-A riot is the language of the unheard.
-When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that he suffers from a type of spiritual poverty, which is in stark contrast to his scientific and technological abundance.
-The question is not if we are going to be extremists, but what types of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
-It does not matter how long you live but how you live, if you live well and die young, you may have contributed more than a person up to eighty years worried only about himself
-It is sad to see how 100 years later the black is still not free.
-Instead of honoring the covenant of our ancestors, blacks have been paid with a bad check, a check that has thrown the notice of "insufficient funds."
-We refuse to accept that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
-We refuse to believe that there are no funds in this nation's chest of opportunity.
-This is not the time to fall into the slumber of conformity, today is the day when we must raise a true promise towards democracy.
-It is time to rise from the darkness of segregation to the subtle step of racial justice.
-It is time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
-The winds of revolt will continue to stir our nation until the bright days of justice emerge.
-We do not satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Never allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
-Once and again we must overcome the weight of physical force with spiritual force.
-The freedom of our white brothers is inexorably linked to our freedom.
-We can never be satisfied while blacks are victims of brutal abuse by the police.
-We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York feels that he has nothing to vote for.
-Let's not build a home in the valley of despair.
-I tell you today brothers, friends, that despite the fact that we face not only the difficulties of today, but also those of tomorrow; I still have a dream.
-We made our government write new laws to abolish the injustices that weighed down on us.
-Despite our efforts, we have not had earth-shaking victories, but neither have we been defeated.
-If you respect my dollars, you must respect my person.
-We will no longer spend our money where we cannot aspire to have substantial jobs.
-A great challenge now will be knowing how to organize all our power within the country's political forces.
- There is nothing wrong with holding power as long as it is used fairly.
-One of the biggest problems in our society is that the concept of love and power have always been seen as opposites.
-We must accept the reality that power without love is abusive and oppressive, while love without power is anemic and too permissive.
-No matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.
-The fact is that the work that improves the condition of humanity, the work that extends knowledge, increases power, enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to ensure life.
-A series of positive psychological changes will inevitably result in widespread economic security.
-I tell you today, my friends, that you will be able to speak with the languages of men and of angels; they may have the eloquence of articulate speech; But if you don't have love, it doesn't mean a thing
-In other words, its entire structure must be changed.
-We must all go out and say "America, you must be born again!"
-Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort, from the inner city of poverty and despair are crushed by the blows of the forces of justice.
-I am happy to join you today in what will go down in history as our nation's greatest demonstration of freedom.
-A jubilant day came to end the long night of captivity.
-A hundred years later, the life of the black continues to be sadly stunted by the handcuffs of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
-A hundred years later, the Negro continues to languish in the corners of American society and finds himself exiled from his own land.
-We have arrived in our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they signed a promissory note, which would be inherited by all Americans.
-This promissory note was a promise that all men, yes, black men and white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-Today it is evident that the United States has defaulted on that promissory note as regards its black citizens.
-We have come to cash this check, a check that will give us the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
-This is not the time to participate in the luxury of cooling off or taking the calming drug of gradualism.
-Now is the time to make the promises of democracy come true.
-Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
This suffocating summer of legitimate Negro discontent will not come to an end until a comforting autumn of freedom and equality arrives.
"Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, instead one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three is a beginning."
-There will be no rest or tranquility in the United States until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
-In the process of winning our rightful place, we must not commit illicit acts. We should not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of hatred and bitterness.
-We must always guide our struggle towards the level of dignity and discipline.
-Once and again we must ascend to the majestic heights and unite physical strength with soul strength.
-We can't walk alone.
-As we walk, we must promise ourselves that we will move on. We cannot go back.
-We can never be satisfied while our bodies, tired with the fatigue of travel, cannot stay in roadside motels and hotels in cities.
-We can never be satisfied as long as the basic mobility of blacks is from a smaller black neighborhood to a larger black neighborhood.
-We can never be satisfied as long as our children have their individuality taken away and they are deprived of their dignity with signs that say: "for whites only."
-No, no, we will never be satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls like water and righteousness is like a great stream.
-Keep working with the faith that undeserved suffering is redemptive.
-Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and black neighborhoods of our northern cities, knowing that in one way or another this situation can and will be. changed.
-I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live the true meaning of its creed: "We hold that these truths are self-evident, that all men were created equal."
-I dream that one day in the red hills of Georgia, the children of former slaves and the children of slave owners will be able to sit together at the brotherhood table.
-I dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state burdened by the heat of injustice, burdened by the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
-Let freedom ring from the great mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the towering Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania.
-Let freedom ring from the Snowy Colorado Rockies.
-Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
-If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed his music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry.
-If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets so well that all the guests in heaven and on earth would pause to say "here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
-Keep moving. Do not let anything stop you. Advance with dignity, honor, and decorum.
-It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.
-There is a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but must take it because in his conscience he knows that it is the right thing to do.
-The richer we become materially, the poorer we become spiritually.
-Never, never be afraid to do the right thing. Especially if the welfare of a person or an animal is at stake.
-The punishments of society are small compared to the wounds we do to our soul when we look the other way.
-To be great, you must be willing to be mocked, hated and misunderstood. Stay strong.
-If I can't do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
-John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be made for around twenty billion dollars a year. And I tell you today that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust and evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend thousands of dollars. millions of dollars to put God's children on their own feet here on earth.
-I dream that one day, the state of Alabama, whose governor spits out phrases of interposition between the races and annulment of the blacks, will become a place where black boys and girls can join hands with those of white boys and girls and walk together, as brothers and sisters.
I dream that one day the valleys will be peaks, and the hills and mountains will be flat, the steepest places will be leveled and the crooked ones will be made straight, and the glory of God will be revealed, and all mankind will be united.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to carve out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we can transform the discordant sound of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we can work together, pray together, fight together, go to jail together, defend freedom together, knowing that one day we will be free.
That will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing the hymn with a new meaning, “My country is yours. Sweet land of liberty, I sing to you. Land of freedom where my ancestors died, land of pride of the pilgrims, on each side of the mountain, let freedom ring. And if America is to be great, this will have to come true.