Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.