More Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
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.
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.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Our children need our presence, not our presents.
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?
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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.
