"I hate it when people quote me..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.”

“‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.”

“As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.”

“Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.”

“A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.”

“Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.”

“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.”

“But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.”

“In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.”