MARTIN Luther King Jr was a leader in the American civil rights movement during the 1960s. The renowned social activist was assassinated on April 4 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. We take a look back at some of his most famous quotes. What were Martin Luther King Jr’s most famous quotes? On education “Intelligence plus character […]
MARTIN Luther King Jr was a leader in the American civil rights movement during the 1960s.
The renowned social activist was assassinated on April 4 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. We take a look back at some of his most famous quotes.
“Intelligence plus character – that is the true goal of education.
“If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, ‘brethren!’, be careful, teachers!
“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – The Purpose of Education from Morehouse College, student newspaper, 1947.
“Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.” – Loving Your Enemies, 1957.
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” – A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart sermon, 1959.
“I have a dream that one day right here in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.
“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 a Dream, 1963.
“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.” – Martin Luther King Jr’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”- Letter from Birmingham jail, 1963.
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Letter from Birmingham jail, 1963
“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera.
“Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.” – Facing the Challenge of a New Age, 1956.
