Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.