When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King, Jr
The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Martin Luther King, Jr
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Martin Luther King, Jr
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. Martin Luther King, Jr
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr
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. Martin Luther King, Jr
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society…shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. Martin Luther King, Jr
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. Martin Luther King, Jr
A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr