Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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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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Find a voice in a whisper.
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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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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
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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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Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.
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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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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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Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
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I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.
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Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
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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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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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
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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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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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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
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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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Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty.
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It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
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We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.