Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

The time is always right to do what is right.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

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

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

Riots are the language of the unheard.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.