Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.