Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

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

"The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."

"I've decided to stick with love because hate is too heavy a load to carry."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral."

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

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable; every step toward justice requires sacrifice."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Cowardice asks if it is safe; conscience asks if it is right."

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative."

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

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

"I believe that even amid today's morally out of joint world, we can still work toward a better tomorrow."

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."

"Our children will judge us not by what we say but by what we do."

"The purpose of education is to awaken the sense of beauty and righteousness."

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

"Not all white people are racists, and not all victims are innocents."

"I have decided to align myself with the truth, and truth is on the side of freedom and justice."

"Strength to love is not about feeling strong; it's about choosing compassion when you could choose vengeance."

"A right delayed is a right denied."

"We gain our ends only with persistent effort and moral courage."

"Life's tragedies are often the seeds of transcendence and growth."

"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sell his birthright for a mess of integrationist pottage."