Famous quotes by Ministers

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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., Minister

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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., Minister

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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., Minister

"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., Minister

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A lie cannot live"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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., Minister

"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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