Martin Luther King, Jr., would be 77 years old today. He was killed 17 months before I was born, and I was named, in large part, after him. Today is a good day to ponder his wisdom and leadership. Today is also a day to mourn his assassination.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.- Martin Luther King Jr.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.- Martin Luther King Jr.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.- Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.- Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.- Martin Luther King Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.- Martin Luther King Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.- Martin Luther King Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.- Martin Luther King Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.- Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.- Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind 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., December 11, 1964
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.
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.- Martin Luther King Jr.
