Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.