Happy Martin Luther King Day! In memory of this great man, here are some of his quotes.
– – –
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?””
“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.”
– – –
The leader of the “African-American Civil Rights Movement” will always be remembered for the way he changed history.What is also very memorable is that King was nonviolent in his resistance, showing that you don’t have to use physical force to make some sort of change in the world.Even though Martin Luther King Jr. is in heaven now, he will continue to live on in his amazing accomplishments down here on Earth.This man brought about rights for african americans and changed America for the better! He was a true hero and he will never be forgotten!
