Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

"A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared."

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."

"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."

"The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."