Quotes By Martin Luther King Jr

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop ... I've looked over and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

And so I say to you today, my friends, that you may be able to speak with the tongues of men and angels; you may have the eloquence of articulate speech; but if you have not love, it means nothing.

Keep moving, for it may well be that the greatest song has not yet been sung, the greatest book has not been written, the highest mountain has not been climbed.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end.

Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity.

We still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert every hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at hand.