Martin Luther King, Jr. Moral Quotations

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.