Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.

Leaders make impacts. If your riches don’t help you to make impacts, you aren’t leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.

The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it’s the idea that the emails and phone records of Americans should remain free from government search and seizure. It’s the idea that parents must be the decision makers in regards to their children's education — not some government bureaucrat.But most importantly, it is the idea that the individual must be free to pursue his or her own happiness free from government dependence and free from government control. Because to be truly free is to be reliant on no one other than the author of our destiny. These are the ideas at the core of the Republican Party, and it is why I am a Republican. So my brothers and sisters of the American community, please join with me today in abandoning the government plantation and the Party of disappointment. So that we may all echo the words of one Republican leader who famously said, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther's man country's hero a tyrant, a dictator or a murderer and favor the next just to divide and conquer the people.

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

When the leader grows, the organization grows.

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

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.

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.