Martin Luther King Quotes

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.