Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes - Page 3

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live

If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up

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

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.