Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

When principles fail, men have only one way to save them and to preserve their faith, which is to die for them.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Sacrifice life to truth.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise... I die for them.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.