Martin Luther King Jr Quotes: Martin Luther King Jr Day is an official holiday in America. It is celebrated on the third Monday of the month of January each year. Martin Luther King Jr. is revered as a great American leader who raised voice against the racial discrimination and was a non-violent activist who led the Civil Rights Movement.
He was assassinated in 1968 and the soon after the public demanded a federal holiday for his birth anniversary and a campaign was started for the same. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr, here are some of the most powerful and inspiring quotes by him.
Inspiring Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
- “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”
- “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
- “A lie cannot live.”
- “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
- “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
- “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
- “No one really knows why they are alive, until they know what they’d die for.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
- “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.”
- “I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”
- “The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”
