12 Powerful Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

1. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


2.  “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


3.  “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


4.  “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


5.  “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
― Martin Luther King Jr


6.  “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


7.  “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, 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.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


8.  “The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


9.  “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


10.  “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


11.  “If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.


12.  “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 with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralysing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.”
― Martin Luther King Jr