TOP 50 QUOTES BY Martin Luther King

Here are the top 50 quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.:

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

2. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

3. "The time is always right to do what is right."

4. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

5. "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.'"

6. "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."

7. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

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

9. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

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

11. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

12. "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."

13. "If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

14. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

15. "We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

16. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

17. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

18. "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

19. "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

20. "The time is always right to do right."

21. "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

22. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

23. "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people."

24. "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

25. "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

26. "The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

27. "There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."

28. "Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."

29. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

30. "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."

31. "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."

32. "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

33. "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

34. "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."

35. "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

36. "The time is always right to do what is right."

37. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

38. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

39. "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.'"

40. "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."

41. "We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

42. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

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

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

45. "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people."

46. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

47. "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

48. "The time is always right to do right."

49. "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

50. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

These quotes reflect the wisdom, passion, and commitment of Martin Luther King Jr. in advocating for equality, justice, and love.

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