Quotes from 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.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.