Martin Luther King Day Quotes – Inspiring Words of a Civil Rights Icon

The time is always ripe to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Day Quotes – Inspiring Words of a Civil Rights Icon part 2

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. – Martin Luther King Jr.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Justice delayed is justice denied. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. – Martin Luther King Jr.

If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. – Martin Luther King Jr.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence is betrayal. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King Jr.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King Jr.

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King Jr.