More Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
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.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
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.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people