Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.
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God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
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There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
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But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
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Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
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Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty.
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Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
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We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.