More Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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.
