Famous Martin Luther King Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

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.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Famous Martin Luther King Quotes part 2

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

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.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.

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

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.