Favorite quotes

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

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 that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

…the promise of democracy. Now is
the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of
segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time
to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the
solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a
reality for all of God’s children.”Now, I say to you today, my friends, so 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

.’”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.”I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a
state sweltering with the people’s injustice, sweltering with the
heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom
and Justice. “I have a dream that my four little children will
one day live in a nation where they will not be…