Martin Luther King Quotes

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Martin Luther King

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King

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

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And 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.
Martin Luther King

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King

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

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther King

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, 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 streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King