Quotes About Martin Luther King Speech

#1. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn

#2. Books grounded me, helped me to feel less alone.

Carrie Brownstein

#3. The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

K.P. Yohannan

#4. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#5. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war ... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

N. T. Wright

#8. It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

David Maraniss

#9. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Aberjhani

#12. He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals ...

Adam Langer

#13. Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was all a battlefield. It was wild, without a friend. It was all a broken battlefield.

Philip Dodd

#14. Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.

L. Tom Perry

#15. If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless - allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience.

Martha N. Beck

#17. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. Small truths have greater power than big lies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."

Charlie Sheen

#20. I like not charity unreasonably large for the exempting of ourselves from the labour of duty: I would not choose such a charitable physician that would make his patients believe that they are in no danger, to save himself the labour of attending them for the cure.

Richard Baxter

#21. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#22. We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. Customer: Do you have any crime books involving speeding fines?

Jen Campbell

#24. Sheets, towels and blankets surrounded Travis. He had fashioned a soft pallet to sleep on while I expelled the fifteen shots of tequila I'd consumed the night before. Travis had held my hair out of the toilet, and sat with me all night.

Jamie McGuire

#25. We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

Celine Dion

#27. Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.

Robert James Thomson

#28. Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.

Simon Sinek

#29. We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Martin Luther King Jr.