Famous Quotes

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."

"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"I 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."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

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

"Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?"

"The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."