“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
Death“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
Love“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
Death“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Legal“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
Equality“We must use time creatively.”
Time“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
Death“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Time“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Love“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”
Change“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Leadership“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Great“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”
Love“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
Money“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
Love“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
Life“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.”
Forgiveness“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”
Sympathy“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
Good“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
Life“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
Education“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
War