Martin Luther King Jr.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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

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

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

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.