Martin Luther Quotes

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

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

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

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.

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

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

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

He who sleeps does not sin.

In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Find a voice in a whisper.

A right delayed is a right denied.