Quotes By Martin Luther King Jr

We recognize that his hate grows out of fear, pride, ignorance, prejudice, and misunderstanding.

Modern psychology recognizes what Jesus taught centuries ago: Hate divides the personality and love in an amazing and inexorable way unites it.

Throw us in jail and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.

Certainly one can never forget, if that means erasing totally for his mind. But when we forgive, we forget in the sense that the evil deed is no longer a mental block impeding a new relationship.

Upheaval after upheaval has reminded us that modern man is traveling along the road called hate, in a journey that will bring us to destruction and damnation

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo 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.

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

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

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.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

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.