1,161 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

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.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.