Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"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."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."

"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"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."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new."

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"A riot is the language of the unheard."

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."

"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."