Famous Quotes

Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr

• Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
• 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?'
• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
• The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
• The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
• The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
• The time is always right to do what is right.
• The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
• There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.