Martin Luther King Quotes

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.

Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

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I submit that an individual who breaks a 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 the law.

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

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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.

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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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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.

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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

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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.

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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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

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

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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. Martin Luther King Jr.