Martin Luther King Jr.

"Character is what you do when no one is watching."

"The measure of greatness is not how many people serve you, but how many people you serve."

"We must reach the conscience of the nation through courageous appeals to its moral sensibilities."

"Education is not merely a technical skill; it is a moral responsibility."

"In the final analysis, the questions of race relations are not technical but moral."

"The choice before us is not between violence and nonviolence, but between nonviolence and nonexistence."

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

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what you pretend to be."

"Our scientific genius has surpassed our moral wisdom; we can split atoms but cannot split ourselves from prejudice."

"Means and ends must cohere because the end is pre-existent in the means."

"The word is ours, if we have the courage to speak it and act upon it."

"Violence begets violence; love begets love. Choose wisely what legacy you will leave."

"Every person has value and deserves respect, regardless of their station or circumstances."

"The church must become involved in the social and economic struggles of mankind."

"We are called to be architects of a new world, not merely critics of the old."

"The ultimate expression of faith is action on behalf of what we believe."

"I have been to the mountaintop, and I have seen the promised land."

"Our challenge is to build a beloved community where all are valued equally."

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

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."

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

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"

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

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

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

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

"I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

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