Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.

All lives have an equal value.

We can all mouth the words that every human is fundamentally worthy, but we don't act like it. We don't even believe it about ourselves.

Human lives are human lives.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

All people are special, and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time more special than another. Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from responsibility for hearing God's message, much less receiving it (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else's word for everything.

You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!