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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Our children need our presence, not our presents.
I have a dream that my four 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.
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Of all of the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.