Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes

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 time is always right to do what is right.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

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

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

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

Let's build bridges, not walls.

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.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

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

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

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

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

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

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

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

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

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

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

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

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

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.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.