Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Quality

• If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Moving On, Dream

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “The trumpet of conscience”, Harpercollins

• The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Time, Important

• And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Morning, Reality, Quality

  "The trumpet of conscience".

• The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Humility, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, People, Enemy

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

• Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

• We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, Careers

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

• The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Liberty, Quality, Elements

• To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Selfish, Mean

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, White

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

• Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Good Life, Selfish

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.7, Beacon Press

• I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, Quality, Students

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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