All The King’s Words: Dr. Martin Luther King’s Most Riveting Quotes was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
1. On Progress
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“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.”
2. On Faith
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
3. On Living A Giving Life
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
4. On Injustice
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
5. On Being Alive
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“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. “
6. On Living
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
7. On Being A Man
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“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.”
8. On Playing Your Position
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“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.”
9. On Salvation
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“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
10. On The Laws He Sought To Change
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” It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
11. On Altruism
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
12. On Truth & Unconditional Love
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“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.”
13. On Doing Great Things
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“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
14. On Communication & Fear
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“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
15. On Forgiveness
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“Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.”
16. On Ignorance
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
17. On Riots
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“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
18. On Love
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
19. On Oneness
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“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
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21. On Injustice
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“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
