The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
-
-
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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