Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.