Famous Quotes from ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life 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.The Trumpet of Conscience... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Mankind 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 Jr. {view}
  • There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society. . .... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}
  • Whatever your life's 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.... Martin Luther King Jr. {view}