"We have a great dream. It started..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.”
“Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.”
“When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.”
More on American Dream
“My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America.”
“I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.”
“Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.”
More on Hope
“Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...”
“Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.”
“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”