Famous Quotes

Quotes by Martin Luther

• 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.
• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
• I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
• I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
• I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
• I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
• I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
• If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
• If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
• Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
• Nothing good ever comes of violence.
• One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
• One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
• Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
• Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
• Pray, and let God worry.
• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.