Martin Luther King Jr.

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

"We are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside."

"Lightning makes no thunder without blood and pain."

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity for their spirits."

"The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

"Strangely, the problem of poverty is not a problem of individual character and conduct, so much as it is a problem of economic and social organization."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal safety and comfort."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"Nonviolence is a humanitarian doctrine and must be understood and adopted on this ground."

"The time is always ripe to do right; we must not postpone justice."

"Build no walls to separate yourselves from others."

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

"The function of the church is not to make the crooked straight, but to proclaim the truth."

"There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom."

"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace."

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles."

"The great majority of us are more concerned about appearing to be successful than in being successful ourselves."

"A time comes when silence is betrayal."

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

"Whom you would change, you must first love."

"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit."

"I have come to believe that the whole of human history may be nothing more than an account of man's encounters with the Divine."

"The bravest thing we can do when we are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism."

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."