Quotes of Martin - somelinesforyou

“ You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

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

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

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

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. ”

- Unknown

“ Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately. ”

- Graham Nash

“ I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, I would plant a tree. ”

- Martin Luther

“ One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go. ”

- James P. McFadden

“ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ”

- Mark Pryor

“ I'm of two minds about the NAACP, I'll be brutally honest. When I was writing for 'Sinbad' and 'Roc Live,' I remember the pilot for Martin coming on, and a year later, the NAACP giving him an Image Award. A few years later, Martin was under fire for being coonish or whatever the word was people were using… ”

- Orlando Jones

“ I'd like someone to mention the day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day, that I tried to be right on the war question… ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Then I met Martin Luther. He taught me, that a Christian should be cheerful. Then I met Christ. He was even more shrewd, he whispered in my ear: Let them strike us dead on Black Friday, we will fool them on Easter Morning. ”

- Kai Munk

“ His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence. ”

- Nikki Giovanni
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