Martin Luther King Quotes About Equality

I have a dream that one day every individual will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

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.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Quotes About Equality part 2

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

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

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

No lie can live forever.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I have discovered that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

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.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to 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.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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.

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

Everyone has the power for greatness; not for fame, but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

The time is always right to do what is right.

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.