Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

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.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

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

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!