In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.
– Martin Luther King Jr
Of all the forms of inequality, Injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The Ultimate measure of a man, is not where he is in times of comfort; but, where he stands in moments of Challenges and Controversy.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother- in- law.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom,which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
– Martin Luther King Jr.