MLK Day: 15 Martin Luther King Jr. quotes
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- 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.
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?
- The time is always right to do what is right.
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- 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 accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?
- Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
~Wakenya Canada
