Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action
We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.