Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

We must substitute courage for caution.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

Dare to think for yourself.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.