Martin Luther King Jr.

“What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.”

“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.”

“Si supiera que el mundo se acaba mañana,yo, hoy todavía, plantaría un árbol.”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

“Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”

“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

“I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...”

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

“And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”

“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”

“the time is always right to do the right thing”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”

“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

“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.”

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“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.”

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

“A right delayed is a right denied.”