1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.