Quotes by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.�
“If a man hasn’t discovered something he is willing to die for, he isn’t fit to live.�
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.�
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.�
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.�
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.�
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.�
“Rarely do we find men willingly engaged in hard, solid thinking. There is almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than to have to think.�
“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.�
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