1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.