Quotes from MLK – Inspiring Words from a Civil Rights Icon
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Change does not come from a place of comfort, but from a place of discomfort.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Quotes from MLK – Inspiring Words from a Civil Rights Icon part 2
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
The time is always right to do what is right.
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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.
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.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
The time is always right to do what is right.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
We must come to the point that we realize the winter of delay is much more dangerous than the winter of discontent.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people but the silence of the good people.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final say in reality.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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.
We must come to the point that we realize the winter of delay is much more dangerous than the winter of discontent.
The time is always right to do what is right.