Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
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I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
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I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
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Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.
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Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
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Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
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Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world.
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Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
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I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.