Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Top 25 Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes and Sayings
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have decided to stick to love... Hate is too great a burden to bear.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.