Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Leaders
• Proved
• Social Revolution

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Everything
  • Against

• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Europe
  • Communism
  • Haunting

• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• When I get married it will be for keeps.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Will
  • Married
  • Get Married

• Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Movement
  • Leaders

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Done
  • Job

• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe
  • Water
  • Sweet

• Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  

  Jay Rockefeller
  • War
  • Future
  • Stop

• London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic uniform three times before London, and I finally made the team. It was a big deal, and it was quite emotional, which is probably one of the reasons I didn't perform at my best.

  

  Eloise Wellings
  • Team
  • Emotional

• The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Adventure
  • Word
  • Overused

• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Truth
  • True

• The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • May
  • Humans
  • Viruses

• Pride is a fool's fortress.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Pride
  • Fool
  • Fortress

• I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  

  Zona Gale
  • Time
  • Men
  • Sleep

• I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable planet for generations to come.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • World
  • May

• I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Leaders
  • Proved
  • Social Revolution