22 Powerful and Inspiring Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

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

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Unearned suffering is redemptive.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.