Martin Luther King Jr.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

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 bent.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.