MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"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."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"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."

"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

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

"Hate destroys the hater."

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."

"The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

"The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may."

"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

"Find a voice in a whisper."

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."