He was an American activist, clergyman, and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon.
In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial discrimination, racial segregation and decided
to turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to
lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
(1929 - 1968)
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but
comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who
helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal
of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must all learn to live as brothers. Or we will all perish as fools.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was the 16th president of the United States, who guided his country through the most devastating experience
in its national history, the Civil War. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president.
He is remembered for his involvement in the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at about 10:15 P.M., while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, president Lincoln was shot in the back of his head.
(1809 - 1865)
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
~ Mark Twain
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
~ Henry Ford
