Quotations by Martin Luther King, Jr

In the end, we will remember not the

words of our enemies, but the silence

of our friends.

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.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes

the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Hate destroys a man's sense of values

and his objectivity. It causes him to describe

the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as

beautiful, and to confuse the true with

the false and the false with the true.

Man must evolve for all human conflict

a method which rejects revenge,

aggression and retaliation. The foundation

of such a method is love.

Our lives begin to end the day we

become silent about things that matter.