1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.