Quotes about Empowerment
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by the color of the skin. I have a dream today that we will overcome someday.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The urge for freedom will eventually come. This is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom; something without has reminded him that he can gain it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The amazing aftermath of Birmingham, the sweeping Negro Revolution, revealed to people all over the land that there are no outsiders in all these fifty states of America. When a police dog buried his fangs in the ankle of a small child in Birmingham, he buried his fangs in the ankle of every American. The bell of man's inhumanity to man does not toll for any one man. It tolls for you, for me, for all of us.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
our slogan must not be "Burn, baby, burn." It must be, "Build, baby, build." "Organize, baby, organize." Yes, our slogan must be "Learn, baby, learn," so that we can earn, baby, earn.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a police dog buried his fangs in the ankle of a small child in Birmingham, he buried his fangs in the ankle of every American. The bell of man's inhumanity to man does not toll for any one man. It tolls for you, for me, for all of us.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One aspect of the civil rights struggle that receives little attention is the contribution it makes to the whole society. The Negro winning in rights for himself produces substantial benefits for the nation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.