Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.