Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Hope, Justice

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science, Religion, Power

A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Language, Riot, Unheard

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Universe, Moral

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art, Someone, Acceptance

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Goal, Means

We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Missiles, Misguided

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

History, Made, Makers

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emotional, Win, Cannot

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sympathy, True, Giving

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human, Lies, Hands

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Means, Pure, Seek

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cannot, Wrong, Radical

Seeing is not always believing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believing, Seeing

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Past, Poor, Peaceful

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poor, Peaceful, Wars

We must use time creatively.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time, Creatively

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Him, Free, Guilt

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Alive, Action, Bring

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War, Great, Society

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War, Tomorrow, Poor

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Leader

Born: January 15, 1929

Died: April 4, 1968

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