Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRCowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPeople fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWhenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRMorality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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 JRIntelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNot only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JREvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe must substitute courage for caution.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR