Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspirational Quotations [Page 2]

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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 street sweeper who did his job well.

When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.