Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives…

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition…

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers…

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless…

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it…

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools…

We have guided missiles and misguided men…

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love…

We are not makers of history. We are made by history…

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated…

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our…

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you…

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the…

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the…

We must use time creatively…