Martin Luther King Jr Quotes (66+)

Enjoy the best Martin Luther King Jr Quotes. Quotations by Martin Luther King Jr (Civil Rights Leader and Minister)
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 04, 1968

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

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

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

We must build bridges of love and compassion, not walls of hatred and prejudice.

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

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

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

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

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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most prominent leader in the civil rights movement. Inspired by his faith and Gandhi, he used nonviolent resistance to fight racial injustice, earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.