Best MLK Quote Collection for Daily Inspiration

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Martin Luther King Jr. was a great leader who fought for equal rights. His words still help people today. These quotes teach us about love, hope, and doing what is right. They are written in simple words that everyone can understand.

1. Wrong anywhere hurts justice everywhere.
2. True peace means having justice, not just no fighting.
3. It is always the right time to do what is right.
4. Our lives stop growing when we stay quiet about important things.
5. The best way to measure a person is how they act during hard times.
6. We must work together or we will fail together.
7. Justice delayed too long becomes no justice at all.
8. Right will win over wrong in the end.
9. We must build a society that can live with a clear heart.
10. Freedom must be demanded by those who need it.
11. The long path of right always bends toward justice.
12. We cannot be satisfied until justice flows like water.
13. Now is the time to make justice real for everyone.
14. We must rise from the valley of separation to the path of fairness.
15. The bank of justice is not empty.

1. Darkness cannot push out darkness, only light can do that.
2. Hate cannot push out hate, only love can do that.
3. Love is the only power that can turn an enemy into a friend.
4. Hate stops life, but love sets it free.
5. Hate makes life confusing, but love makes it clear.
6. Hate makes life dark, but love makes it bright.
7. I have decided to choose love because hate is too heavy to carry.
8. Love has the power to change people.
9. There is good in the worst people and bad in the best people.
10. When we learn this, we hate our enemies less.
11. Love without power is weak and sad.
12. Power without love is dangerous and harmful.
13. We must not let anyone pull us down to hate them.
14. Love is what builds up, hate is what tears down.
15. Keep loving people and they cannot resist it for long.

1. We must accept small disappointments but never lose endless hope.
2. I have a dream that children will be judged by their character, not skin color.
3. I have a dream that this nation will live up to its promise that all people are equal.
4. Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
5. Out of the mountain of sadness comes a stone of hope.
6. I still have a dream despite all the difficulties.
7. I have a dream that black and white children will hold hands as friends.
8. I have a dream that former slaves and slave owners will sit together.
9. Let us hope that clouds of prejudice will pass away soon.
10. God can lift you from tiredness to hope.
11. Dark valleys can become bright paths of peace.
12. We want to be free, and this cry is heard everywhere.
13. I believe people everywhere can have food, education, and freedom.
14. One day war will end and nations will not fight anymore.
15. The stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our nation.

1. If you cannot fly, then run. If you cannot run, then walk.
2. If you cannot walk, then crawl, but keep moving forward.
3. Faith means taking the first step when you cannot see the whole path.
4. Change does not come by itself, it comes through hard work.
5. No one knows why they are alive until they know what they would die for.
6. Take the first step in faith without seeing the whole staircase.
7. We must build walls of courage to stop the flood of fear.
8. Human progress is not automatic or certain.
9. Every step toward justice needs sacrifice and struggle.
10. We must create tension that is needed for growth.
11. A riot is the language of people who are not heard.
12. We must shift from caring about things to caring about people.
13. When people care about what is right, nothing can stop them.
14. We must combine the toughness of a snake with the softness of a dove.
15. All life is connected in a network that ties us together.

1. Education should teach people to think deeply and critically.
2. Smart thinking plus good character is the goal of real education.
3. Education gives people not just focus but good goals to focus on.
4. Education must help people tell truth from lies and facts from fiction.
5. Nothing is more dangerous than honest ignorance and careful stupidity.
6. I believe people can have food, education, and dignity.
7. Complete education gives power and worthy goals.
8. We must learn to judge what is true and what is false.
9. Education should provide culture for minds and freedom for spirits.
10. Learning helps people make good choices and be good citizens.
11. Smart people with bad character are very dangerous.
12. Education must teach people to think for themselves.
13. Knowledge without character is not enough.
14. True learning makes people better and wiser.
15. Education should help people serve others better.

1. Everyone can be great because anyone can serve others.
2. You do not need a college degree to serve people.
3. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul full of love.
4. Life's most important question is: What are you doing for others?
5. A person has not started living until they care about all humanity.
6. Make helping people your life's work.
7. You will become a better person and make a better world.
8. All work that helps humanity has dignity and importance.
9. Do your work with careful excellence.
10. If you are called to sweep streets, do it like an artist.
11. Sweep so well that heaven and earth will notice.
12. No work is too small if it helps people.
13. The good neighbor looks beyond outside differences.
14. Service to others is the path to greatness.
15. We must develop dangerous unselfishness.

1. We must learn to live together as brothers or die together as fools.
2. All men are created equal according to our nation's promise.
3. We hold these truths to be clear: all people are equal.
4. Little black boys and girls will hold hands with white children.
5. We are all caught in a network that connects us.
6. Whatever affects one person affects everyone else.
7. We are tied together in a single piece of destiny.
8. Every person is somebody because they are God's child.
9. We must see the sacredness of all human life.
10. People fail to get along because they fear each other.
11. They fear each other because they do not know each other.
12. We may have come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now.
13. Our loyalties must go beyond race, tribe, and nation.
14. We must develop a world perspective.
15. Every nation must be loyal to all mankind.

1. It is not enough to say we must not fight wars.
2. We must love peace and sacrifice for it.
3. We must focus on saying yes to peace, not just no to war.
4. Through violence you may kill a murderer, but not murder itself.
5. Through violence you may kill a liar, but not lies themselves.
6. Violence cannot establish truth or murder hate.
7. We must choose nonviolence or face nonexistence.
8. Nonviolence is not just avoiding fighting.
9. True peace is not just the absence of tension.
10. Peace means the presence of justice.
11. We must conduct our struggle with dignity and discipline.
12. We must not let our protest become physical violence.
13. We must meet physical force with soul force.
14. Let us not drink from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
15. We must rise to the heights of meeting force with love.

1. The ultimate test of a person is where they stand during controversy.
2. We will remember not the words of enemies, but the silence of friends.
3. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
4. We must have the power to forgive.
5. Someone without the power to forgive cannot love.
6. Forgiveness is not something you do once, but a constant attitude.
7. Never give in to the temptation of bitterness.
8. We are not makers of history, we are made by history.
9. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
10. I am interested in power that is moral, right, and good.
11. We must accept disappointment but never lose hope.
12. Those not looking for happiness are most likely to find it.
13. The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
14. We judge success by salary and cars instead of service to mankind.
15. We cannot walk alone in our journey toward freedom.

1. America has given black people a bad check marked insufficient funds.
2. One hundred years later, black people are still not free.
3. We have come here today to show a shameful condition.
4. America is still a racist country, and this is the truth.
5. We will never solve racism until we recognize this fact.
6. All we say to America is be true to what you wrote on paper.
7. We are determined to be people and God's children.
8. We do not have to live like we are forced to live.
9. America owes a debt of justice it has only begun to pay.
10. Many ugly pages of American history have been forgotten.
11. White Americans must recognize that justice requires radical changes.
12. White people are not making similar efforts to educate themselves.
13. Each step forward brings arguments that black people have come far enough.
14. We must be concerned about the system that produces murderers.
15. The price America pays for oppression is its own destruction.