A brief biography from his page on the Nobel prize website;
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. [more...]
He is famous for the I have a dream Speech.
An excerp:
“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.’”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will they be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.”
He was a great orator, and left behind many wise words that we can quote.
Here are some Martin Luther King Quotes:
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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