1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Rebellion]
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Progress]
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Love]
Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Love]
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]
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Freedom]
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Hatred]
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Evil]
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. – [Reality]
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Dreams]
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Human Fellowship]
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. – [Equality]
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Liberals]
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Love]
I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Vision]
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Character]
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Consequences]
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Relationships]
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Death and Dying]
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr. – [Excellence]