Quotes about Values
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.
— 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.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he's not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.