MLK Jr. Had So Much More to Say than “I Have a Dream”
15 timeless quotes from Martin Luther King:
The time is always right to do what is right.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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.
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.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.
Martin Luther King, Jr.