1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.