Public Domain Photo of MLK, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Born January 15, 1929
- Graduated high school at age 15
- Received a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1948
- Received a BD in Theology from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951
- Received a PhD from Boston University in 1955
- Married Coretta Scott and had 2 sons and 2 daughters
- Awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 at age 35 – youngest man to ever receive the award
- Assassinated April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN
My favorite Martin Luther King Quotes:
“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”
“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.”
“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.”
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
“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.”
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”