Quotes about Courage
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends, we cannot win the respect of the white people of the South or elsewhere if we are willing to trade the future of our children for our personal safety or comfort. Moreover, we must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. ... 'Put up thy sword.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do what's right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the nonviolent army, there is room for everyone who wants to join up. There is no color distinction. There is no examination, no pledge, except that, as a soldier in the armies of violence is expected to inspect his carbine and keep it clean, nonviolent soldiers are called upon to examine and burnish their greatest weapons -- their heart, their conscience, their courage, and their sense of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.