Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The Universe is on the side of Justice

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

unearned suffering is redemptive.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.