• “The time is always right to do what is right.”

• “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

• “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

• “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

• “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

• “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

• “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’’

• “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

• “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”

• “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

• “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

• “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

• “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

• “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.”

• “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”

• “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 must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

• “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

• “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

• “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”

• “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”

• “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.”

• “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”

• “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

• “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”