Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everybody can be great because everybody can serve... You only need a heart full of grace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
