"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." (Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963)
"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 reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"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."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. "
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. " (Strengh to Love, 1963)
"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." (Strength to Love, 1963)
"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."
" He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love."
" We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
" Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
" Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
"Now, I say to you today my friends, 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. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" -I have a Dream
" 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." (from an address given in Memphis the night before his assassination, April 3, 1968)
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