Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes and sayings
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes
- The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
- Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
- The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- 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.
- Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- A lie cannot live.
- I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
- It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.