More Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
Our children need our presence, not our presents.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
It is always the right time to do the right thing.
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.