What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring con...
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force....
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is be...
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communis...
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
the time is always right to do the right thing
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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.I have a dream that one day on...