Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

You just have to do what you know is right.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

I do what I think is right.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

We must do right and risk the consequences.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

I have to do what's right.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

You must always do what you feel is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.