Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

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.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

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

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.