More Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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?'
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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.
