Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimis...
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
And so 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.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man,...
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man,...
This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the ve...
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.