Martin Luther King Jr Quotes - Page 2

When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther's man country's hero a tyrant, a dictator or a murderer and favor the next just to divide and conquer the people.

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.

Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

Let these words be your guide; money or no money, houses or no houses, cars or no cars, never turn down the divine assignment of God for your life. Become an inspiration to another life through good service and healthy relationship.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

Leaders make impacts. If your riches don’t help you to make impacts, you aren’t leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.

Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.

The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together?

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

Leaders fight hard wars againstinjustice and unfairness. Theybelieve that the truth is a weapon;when triggered, the lie dies.

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.

The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.