10 Most Powerful Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 17, 2022 · 2 mins read
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"We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
-From "I Have A Dream" speech
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“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong."
- From Strength to Love, 1963 book by Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
- Strength to Love
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Strength to Love
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"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.”
-From 1963 Spellman College Address
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"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
-From his 1956 "The Most Durable Power" sermon
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"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
-From his 1957 book Stride Toward Freedom.
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"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."
- From "The Purpose of Education," a 1947 article for Morehouse College's student newspaper
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"Love is the greatest force in the universe. It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. He who loves is a participant in the being of God."
-From a rare handwritten letter he penned in the mid-1960s
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"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
-From his April 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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