Martin Luther was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. His Full name is Martin Luther King Jr. He was a Minister, activist, civil rights movement, & Peace movement. Martin Luther was best known as civil rights with nonviolence & civil disobedience. 

Martin Luther led the Montgomery bus boycott & became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1955. Then he unsuccessful in 1962 struggle against segregation in Georgia. Martin helped organize the March on Washington in 1963, on that place Martin’s delivered his famous speech ‘I Have a Dream’ in the way of the Lincoln Memorial.

Martin Luther began with peaceful protests & changed many laws with the equality of African Americans. Martin won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting racial inequality with nonviolent resistance. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot & killed in Memphis, Tennessee on October 14, 1964.

Martin’s life ended that day but the work that he had done changed the nation. Recent activists have efforts on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to reclaim the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In his honor, We at Lessons Learned In Life love to share the Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes of Motivation and Inspiration. We compile the Top Inspiring Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes for you to be inspired and find them comforting and helpful in your life.

 Powerful Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

 

1.“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

2.“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

3.“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

4.“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

6.“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.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

7.“There is no gain without a struggle.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

8.“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

9.“The time is always right to do the right thing.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

10.“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

11.“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

12.“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

13.“Hate destroys the hater…”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

14.“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

16.“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.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

17.“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

18.“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

19.“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

20.“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

21.“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

22.“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.

23.“A lie cannot live.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

24.“You will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile, laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

“In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

26.“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service… You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

27.“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

28.“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

29.“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

30.“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life, is what is important.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

31.“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

32.“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

33.“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

34.“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

“We must use time creatively.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

36.“The time is always right to do what is right.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

37.“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

38.“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

39.“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

40.“Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

41.“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

42.“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

43.“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

44.“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

“A right delayed is a right denied.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

46.“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

47.“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

48.“I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

49.“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

50.“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”  — Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Here is a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech I HAVE A DREAM. source History