Martin Luther King Jr. Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, Martin Luther King Jr. sayings, and Martin Luther King Jr. proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. Martin Luther King Jr.
He accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King Jr.
We poor blind creatures, here today and gone tomorrow, born in sin, surrounded by sinners, living in a constant atmosphere of weakness, infirmity, and imperfection - can form none but the most inadequate conceptions of the hideousness of evil. Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King Jr.
Everybody can be great... because any-body can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. Martin Luther King Jr.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Martin Luther King Jr.
I do not think that God approves the death penalty for any crime, rape and murder included. Capital punishment is against the better judgment of modern criminology, and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God. Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
If a man hasn't found something that he will die for, he isn't fir to live. Martin Luther King Jr.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. Martin Luther King Jr.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the blackness of corroding despair. Martin Luther King Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King Jr.
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for. Martin Luther King Jr.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King Jr.
Only in the darkness, you can see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.