A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
We must use time creatively.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.