Quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

Our lives begin to end the day we stop caring for whit is important.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.