My Top 10 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

My favorite quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., MLK as he is commonly called by others.

• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
  
• All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
  
• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
  
• Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
  
• I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
  
• I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
  
• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
  
• Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
  
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
  
• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
  
• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
  
• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
  
• 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 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
  
• When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Martin Luther King Jr. Quotations, MLK lived from January 15, 1929 -April 4, 1968 when he was assasinated.