Quotes about Courage
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must substitute courage for caution.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.