Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes: Famous Sayings For MLK Day 2010

Martin Luther King Jr. quotes prove this man had a way with words, a special means of conveying ideas and having people look at the world with a new perspective.

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2010, it's an appropriate time to revisit his most memorable quotes, which continue to inspire today.

Here are collection of 25 famous Martin Luther King Jr. quotes:

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"A lie cannot live."

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. "

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."

"A right delayed is a right denied."

"A riot is the language of the unheard."

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."

"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."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"We must use time creatively."

Comments

[BIG JOHN]

04:16 PM on 01/18/2010

What made him so great? He gave his life for what he believed in.

[viper234]

03:49 PM on 01/18/2010

"We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world -- a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight."

MLK, speaking out against the War in Vietnam -- April 4, 1967

[johnson187]

02:05 PM on 01/18/2010

I especially liked this post about MLK's Freedom Budget:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chester-hartman/martin-luther-king-and-a_b_423669.html

[amerikanyippie]

02:57 PM on 01/18/2010

This was, indeed, an excellent piece.

[Jinnigan]

01:06 PM on 01/18/2010

One day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. - Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 August 1967, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Presidential Address

[Jinnigan]

01:03 PM on 01/18/2010

"Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and fails to be concerned about the economic conditions that corrupt them, the social conditions that damn them, the city governments that cripple them, is a dry, dead, do-nothing religion in need of new blood." - Martin Luther King Jr., "The Christian Doctine of Man," Sermon delivered at the Detroit Council of Churches' Noon Lenten Services

[Kurtico]

09:53 AM on 01/18/2010

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King

I think many brothers forgot this part

[samosa123]

09:27 AM on 01/18/2010

Martin Luther King Jr Day 2010 Events Video

http://www.monkeydollars.net/2010/01/martin-luther-king-jr-day-2010.html