Quotes about Impact
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 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.
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
— 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.
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.
What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
most people, and Christians in particular, are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively
— Martin Luther King, Jr.