Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The time is always right to do what is right.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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.

Nawet gdybym wiedział, że jutro świat przestanie istnieć, to jeszcze dziś zasadziłbym drzewko jabłoni.

Nasze pokolenie będzie musiało okazać skruchę nie tylko za pełne nienawiści słowa i czyny ludzi złych, ale przede wszystkim za przerażające milczenie ludzi dobrych.

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

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

A right delayed is a right denied.

We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not judge by the color of their skin but by the content of their characted.I have a dream today.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

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.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

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. - from Strength To Love

Musimy nauczyć się żyć razem jak bracia, jeśli nie chcemy zginąć jak szaleńcy.

Bunty są językiem nie wysłuchanych.

If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Jeśli człowiek nie odkrył czegoś, za co umrze, nie nadaje się do życia.

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

Naród lub cywilizacja, która produkuje miękkich mężczyzn kupuje własną duchową śmierć na raty.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Gdy przyjdzie czas na spojrzenie wstecz, nie będziemy pamiętać słów naszych wrogów, ale milczenie naszych przyjaciół.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Płytkie zrozumienie ze strony ludzi dobrej woli jest bardziej frustrujące, niż całkowite niezrozumienie od ludzi złej woli.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

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

Jeśli człowiek ma być zamiataczem ulicznym, powinien zamiatać ulice tak, jak Michał Anioł malował, czy Beethoven komponował muzykę, czy Szekspir pisał poezję. Powinien tak dobrze zamiatać ulice, że wszyscy gospodarze nieba i ziemi zatrzymają się, aby powiedzieć, że tutaj mieszkał wielki zamiatacz, która dobrze wykonywał swoją pracę.

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, 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 street sweeper who did his job well."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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