Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. 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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.