The following is a collection of messages, wishes, and quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to celebrate his life. Dr. King was an American human rights activist who played a key role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. His most famous speech was his “I Have a Dream” speech which he delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Martin Luther King Day Messages
- “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr - “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
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“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
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- “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait - One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
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- “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.
- “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
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- “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”Martin Luther King Jr.
- “I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”
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- “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “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. - “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
