Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

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.

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

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.