Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

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.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

I will flight for the people until my last breath.