Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; _x000D_ Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.