Inspirational Quotations by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Life's most persistent and urgent question is:
What are you doing for others?
- 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.
- Darkness can not drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- I just want to leave a committed life behind.
- Take the first step in faith. You don't have to
see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verbs agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
- Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Our loyalties must transcend our race,
our tribe, our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
This is the interrelated structure of reality.
- In the end we'll remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.