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Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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About Martin Luther King Jr
 Life: 1929 - 1968 Profession: Activist; Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968), was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement. A Baptist minister by training, King became a civil rights activist early in his career, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, raising public consciousness of the civil rights movement and establishing King as one of the greatest orators in American history. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.
more... QuotationsWe must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' ~ Martin Luther King Jr - Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. ~ 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
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
The time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
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