40 Best Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but keep moving forward. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Running Perseverance Hope Success Motivational
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Inspirational Depression Depression Hope Action Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Peace nonviolence Hate Love Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr. Character Courage Adversity Integrity
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr. Faith Courage Future Action
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr. Justice injustice Interconnectedness Responsibility
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr. Love Hate Choice burden
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King Jr. Service others purpose Humanity
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr. Silence Action Courage Morality
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr. Time Morality Action Courage
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr. Hope Disappointment Perseverance Struggle
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Equality Character race Children
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr. ignorance stupidity Danger Education
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Humanity shared destiny Equality
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr. Education Critical Thinking Character Intelligence
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr. Love Transformation enemy Friendship nonviolence
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership consensus Courage Influence
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr. Brotherhood Unity coexistence folly
The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Morality Universe Hope Progress
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King Jr. Life Service Humanity Selflessness
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
Martin Luther King Jr. Science Religion Knowledge Wisdom Power
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King Jr. bitterness Temptation Love Perseverance
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr. Perseverance Progress forward Struggle
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King Jr. Justice rights delay Equality
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King Jr. History Legacy Past Present
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Martin Luther King Jr. Life Quality purpose Meaning
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King Jr. nonviolence weapon Justice Healing
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr. Conscience Courage Morality conviction
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Martin Luther King Jr. Hate Love Dignity Strength
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 means ends Journey
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr. Courage fear Strength Perseverance
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr. Interconnectedness Community Responsibility Unity
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Martin Luther King Jr. Truth Love Reality Victory nonviolence
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr. Greatness Service Love Grace Equality
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
Martin Luther King Jr. Time Creativity Action Morality right
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr. Hope Nonconformity Justice Peace Brotherhood
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King Jr. Understanding goodwill Frustration ignorance Action
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Justice tension Equality
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King Jr. Peace War Affirmation Positivity Action
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. Acceptance Gratitude Kindness Humanity
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