Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. – Martin Luther King,Jr., March 22, 1956

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Martin Luther King Day
category

A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle. – Author Unknown

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. – Veterans Fast for Life

Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. – Martin Luther King,Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

Random Quotes

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
strength

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Category:
Politics

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. – Katharine Whitehorn

Category:
Committees

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. – King Abdullah II

Category:
Fear