Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964 Quotes

I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want a committed life to leave behind.

If a man has done nothing for a cause worth dying for, then he is not fit to live.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

I have tried to keep things in my hands and lost them all, but what I have given into the Lord's hands I still possess.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia. The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.