I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you. Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes From Martin Luther King, Jr. In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. destinyrealmen In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. wisdomkingsfriendship 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. Martin Luther King, Jr. heroevilinspirational Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. Martin Luther King, Jr. libertarian-partythought-provokingtyrants I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health. Martin Luther King, Jr. opportunityjobspeople The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamerdifferenceseye We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. misguidedmenworld I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. blockpeaceorder You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamerdream A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make. Martin Luther King, Jr. productivelife-ishappy-life We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters. Martin Luther King, Jr. brotherjusticehands Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Martin Luther King, Jr. submissiveobstaclessurrender True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved. Martin Luther King, Jr. compassionpeopleneeds One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. Martin Luther King, Jr. changesleepinspirational Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. Martin Luther King, Jr. make-you-thinkamericathinking Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspiringmotivationalinspirational We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way. Martin Luther King, Jr. love-ismenlife It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Martin Luther King, Jr. bootstrapsinjusticemen We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. motivationalpositiveinspirational The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty. Martin Luther King, Jr. cursepovertyage
