So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. More Quotes From Martin Luther King, Jr. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it Martin Luther King, Jr. success motivational inspirational There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King, Jr. sad love life It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr. acceptance inspirational love I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. Martin Luther King, Jr. power kings character The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr. gratitude acceptance art Seeing is not always believing. Martin Luther King, Jr. vision inspirational believe We must use time creatively. Martin Luther King, Jr. music use time I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. Martin Luther King, Jr. brother relationship men War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. Martin Luther King, Jr. tomorrow war funny Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr. respect men life A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Martin Luther King, Jr. betrayal war moving Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say. Martin Luther King, Jr. matter want justice I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power. Martin Luther King, Jr. voting political important If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are. Martin Luther King, Jr. stars winning sun Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. Martin Luther King, Jr. repeats cures nine Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. Martin Luther King, Jr. real dark children People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. Martin Luther King, Jr. ill-will understanding people We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason 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. Martin Luther King, Jr. strange brother together Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare. Martin Luther King, Jr. effort frustration cities We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man. Martin Luther King, Jr. inhumanity-to-man brotherhood men
