Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.