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Martin Luther King Jr. Biography
- Full Name : Michael Luther King, Jr (MLK)
- Born : January 15, 1929 (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S)
- Dead : April 4, 1968 (Memphis, Tennessee, U.S); Assassination by Gunshot
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Civil Rights Activist
- University : Boston University (PhD)
- Spouse : Coretta Scott King
- Children: Yolanda,Bernice, Dexter, and Martin.
- Parent : Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King Sr.
- Awards :
- Nobel Peace Prize.
- Grammy Award.
- Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Facts About Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr. didn't expect to become a civil-rights leader.
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'I Have a Dream' Speech Was Not His First At the Lincoln Memorial.
- 1st President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Dr. King enrolled in college when he was 15.
- MLK earned his Ph.D. in systematic theology at Boston University.
- MLK Was Imprisoned Nearly 30 Times.
- MLK was also awarded at least 20 honorary degrees in later years.
- He spoke at over 2,500 events and gave hundreds of addresses a year.
- MLK won a Grammy award.
- Martin Luther King Narrowly Escaped an Assassination Attempt a Decade Before His Death
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes :
1. “ 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.
2. “ The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
3. “ Lightning makes no sound until it strikes. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “ It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
5. “ I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
6. “ There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
7. “ We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
8. “ Only in the darkness can you see the stars. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
9. “ No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
10. “ We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
11. “ We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
12. “ No person has the right to rain on your dreams. ”
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13. “ Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ”
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14. “ Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
15. “ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. ”
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16. “ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
17. “ Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
18. “ 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.
19. “ Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
20. “ We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
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21. “ Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
22. “ We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
23. “ I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
24. “ Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ”
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25. “ We cannot walk alone. ”
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26. “ A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ”
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27. “ The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ”
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28. “ Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. ”
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29. “ Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. ”
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30. “ Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?' ”
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31. “ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ”
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32. “ We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ”
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33. “ You will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile, laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you. ”
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34. “ Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ”
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35. “ I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
36. “ All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
37. “ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” ”
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38. “ A riot is the language of the unheard. ”
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39. “ Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ”
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40. “ Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”
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41. “ 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.
42. “ If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God’s will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
43. “ I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. ”
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44. “ Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ”
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45. “ We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. ”
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46. “ 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. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
47. “ The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ”
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48. “ That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. ”
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49. “ A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ”
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50. “ 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.
51. “ We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ”
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52. “ The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. ”
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53. “ Mankind must put and end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
54. “ Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. ”
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55. “ The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society. ”
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56. “ There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. ”
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57. “ At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. ”
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58. “ Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ”
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59. “ 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.
60. “ What is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy. ”
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61. “ No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
62. “ He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ”
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63. “ There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. ”
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64. “ I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. ”
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65. “ We are not makers of history. We are made by history. ”
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66. “ If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
67. “ Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ”
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68. “ Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ”
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69. “ Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. ”
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70. “ I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ”
— Martin Luther King Jr.