Martin Luther King Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

Martin Luther King Jr.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man’s capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

Martin Luther King Jr.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is ‘community’ – the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.