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.
– Martin Luther King Jr
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- Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly. – JayZ
- Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong – James Branch Cabell
- [If] a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. – Martin Luther King Jr
- We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. – Martin Luther King Jr
- No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Thus God’s work and His eyes are in the depths, but man’s only in the height. – Martin Luther
- He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free. – Martin Luther
- Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why? – Daniel Marques
- I cannot hate any man! – Martin Luther King Sr
- You’re looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody. – Martin Luther King Sr
- If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. – Martin Luther King Jr
- And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
- You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
- Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow. – Martin Luther
- Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. – Criss Jami
- Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. – Martin Luther
- Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby. – AB Shepherd
- We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things. – Martin Luther King Jr
- The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. – Martin Luther King Jr
- The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? – Martin Luther King Jr
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. – Martin Luther King Jr
- To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. – Martin Luther King Jr
- But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr
- One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. . – Martin Luther King Jr
- At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love – Martin Luther King Jr
- Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King Jr
- No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country – Martin Luther King Jr
- One of these days I’m going to put my body where my mind is. – Martin Luther King Jr
- A right delayed is a right denied. – Martin Luther King Jr
- We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Violence is not only impractical but immoral. – Martin Luther King Jr
- My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice. – Martin Luther King Jr
- The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community. – Martin Luther King Jr