31 of mlk sayings

1. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

2. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

3. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

4. "The time is always right to do what is right."

5. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

6. "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

7. "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."

8. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

9. "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."

10. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

11. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

12. "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."

13. "The time is always right to do what is right."

14. "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

15. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

16. "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

17. "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

18. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

19. "We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

20. "If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all."

21. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

22. "The time is always right to do what is right."

23. "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."

24. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

25. "The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

26. "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

27. "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."

28. "The time is always right to do what is right."

29. "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."

30. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

31. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

Above is 31 of mlk sayings.