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
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.Martin Luther King
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.Martin Luther King
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.Martin Luther King
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.Martin Luther King
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
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.Martin Luther King
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.Martin Luther King
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.Martin Luther King
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
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.Martin Luther King
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.Martin Luther King