Quote: There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: -- we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal [Martin Luther King]
Quote: I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: 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]
Quote: We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. [Martin Luther King]
Quote: Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. [Martin Luther King]