Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

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

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Those that are little, little things suit.

Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?