Martin Luther King Jr.

We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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

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.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.