Martin Luther King, Jr., original name Michael King, Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. and died on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. African Americans in the South and other parts of the United State were able to end legal segregation due to his leadership. As head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King promoted nonviolent tactics to achieve civil rights, including the 1963 March on Washington. In 1964, he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes:
- The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
- The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
- Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
