Martin Luther King Jr.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the economic injustice which makes philanthropy necessary.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood.

One day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?'

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, a riot is not a revolutionary act. It is a cry of people who have been so long unheard that they are now desperate.

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

The price that America must pay for the continued exploitation of the Negro is the price of its own spiritual death.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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.