Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.

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

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.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.