No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIntelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe must substitute courage for caution.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIf 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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRPeace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRA nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRViolence is not only impractical but immoral.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROf all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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 JREvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThere is no gain without struggle.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR