Martin Luther King Jr.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

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.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

All those moments are alive in us today. We may not visit them anymore, very often, but we carry them in our DNA, our blood, our bones; informing the breadth and beauty of who we now are; our lesson to be lived.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

For we put the power in the people.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!