Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

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... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

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

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.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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

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

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

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.