Martin Luther Quotes
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.
I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.