~ Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. 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.

[MysteRy]

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

[MysteRy]

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

[MysteRy]

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

[MysteRy]

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us the opposition we now face will surely fail.

[MysteRy]

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

[MysteRy]

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

[MysteRy]

Cowardice asks the question 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

[MysteRy]

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.