547 Powerful Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes to Inspire You
2. “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Violence, Justice, Peace, Morality, Activism
7. “I say to you that we must go on to the end, we must fight in France, we must fight on the seas and oceans, we must fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we must defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we must fight on the beaches, we must fight on the landing grounds, we must fight in the fields and in the streets, we must fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Fight, Strength, Defense, Resilience, Unity
23. “I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”
Martin Luther King Jr. God, Will, Hope, Promise, Community
24. “Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Internal, External, Spirituality, Reality, Life
25. “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
Martin Luther King Jr. Compassion, Helping, Morality, Action, Empathy
27. “Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Religion, Concern, Society, Spirituality, Justice
29. “Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Cowardice, Conscience, Ethics, Morality, Courage
