Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTake the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRBut I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLet no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIntelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRHate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR