{"author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr.","total_quotes":175,"quotes":[{"text":"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["make-a-difference","work"],"id":3974,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["detroit","martin-luther-king","speech"],"id":9844,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live with the agony and the continued existence of racism, however difficult it is to live amidst the constant hurt, the constant insult and the constant disrespect, I can still sing we shall overcome. We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. 'No lie can live forever.' We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. 'Truth crushed to earth will rise again.' We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. 'Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.'   Yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right.  'You shall reap what you sow.' With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children all over this nation - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, 'Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, We are Free At Last.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["america","civil-rights","freedom","hope","justice","love","race-relations","racism","united-states","united-states-of-america","us","usa"],"id":13473,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["justice"],"id":13964,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["fail","interruption","life","overcome","problem"],"id":22841,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["purpose","sacrifice"],"id":24712,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. This may explain the cascading grief that flooded the country in late November. We mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation, but we grieved as well for ourselves because we knew we were sick.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["intolerance","kennedy","national-character","status-quo","truth","violence"],"id":25708,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["politics","social-justice"],"id":30549,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["destiny","health","interrelations","life","mutuality","poverty","sickness","wealth"],"id":34690,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["brotherhood","love","peace","racism","truth"],"id":38179,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":175,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}