Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

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.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

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

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?