MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

"Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better."

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."

"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."

"One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong"

"Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

"Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait."

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

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

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."

"The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks."

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

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

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."

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

"It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart."

"Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service."

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last."

"If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation."

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

"Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts."

"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."

"We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things."

"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

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

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls."

"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies."

"Be the peace you wish to see in the world."

"One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance."

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

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

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."