Logo
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides

The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Martin Luther King Day
category

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong…. There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. – Alexander Bickel

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. – Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

Random Quotes

If you dont have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? – John Wooden

Category:
Time

The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord. – Bible

Category:
Safety

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Wisdom

Its funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts. – Jason Reitman

Category:
funny