Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Color, Content

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Work, Humanity, Labor

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unless, Ride, Bent

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Nothing, Hard

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learning, Live, Together

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Others, Question

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Legal, Forget, Everything

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance, Stupidity, Nothing

A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live, Lie, Cannot

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Death, Spiritual

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Help, Him

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Work, Job

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

May, Different, Same

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forward, Spiritual, Reality

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Injustice, Anywhere

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom, Oppressor, Oppressed

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great, Hell, Place

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Revenge, Human

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Made, Dream

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Silence

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Enemy, Friend

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reality, Whatever, Until

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Leader

Born: January 15, 1929

Died: April 4, 1968

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