Quotes+from+Dr.+King


 * I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
 * I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
 * I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
 * Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
 * Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
 * Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
 * Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
 * Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
 * Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
 * Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
 * Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
 * The time is always right to do what is right.
 * The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
 * We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
 * The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
 * I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
 * Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. **I have a dream** that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: / we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
 * "If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
 * "As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
 * Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."