Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with some of Martin Luther King’s most memorable quotations on politics, spirituality, forgiveness, faith, and doing the right thing.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King #labor #MLK Click To TweetEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. — 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 Click To TweetFaith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King Click To TweetA nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLK Click To TweetIn the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — 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 MLK Click To TweetForgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King Jr. #MLK Click To TweetOnly in the darkness can you see the stars. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars. — Martin Luther King Jr. #MLK Click To TweetI have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King Jr. #MLK Click To TweetThe time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do the right thing. — Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay Click To TweetOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King #MLK Click To TweetRemember always that the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation — not victory.
Remember always that the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation—not victory. - Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLK Click To TweetGod is still around. One day, you’re going to need him. The problems of life will begin to overwhelm you. Disappointments will begin to beat upon the door of your life. … If you don’t have a deep and patient faith, you aren’t going to be able to make it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is still around. ... If you don’t have a deep and patient faith, you aren’t going to be able to make it. — Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLK Click To TweetNo person has the right to rain on your dreams. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. — Martin Luther King Jr #MLKDay Click To TweetI refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and [community] can never become a reality. … I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. … 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.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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