Martin Luther King Jr.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

Martin Luther King Jr.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King Jr.