Quotes about Integrity
I will do everything in my power to make it so by outspoken agreement whenever proper, and determined opposition whenever necessary.
— 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.
Justice at the deepest level had but few stalwart champions.
— 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.
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Negro knows he is right. he has not organized for conquest or to gain spoils or to enslave those who have injured him. His goal is not to capture that which belongs to someone else. He merely wants and will have what is honorably his.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I had been fighting too long and too hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.