- Because the month of February is Black History Month and we should celebrate that.
Do you know these quotes from Martin Luther King? They’re pretty solid and a great way to go through black history month!
- “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
- “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through
continuous struggle.” - “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- “For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.”
- “In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” This is one of the best of the quotes from Martin Luther King Jr!
- “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
- “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.”
- “Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.”
- “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
- “I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
- “There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
- “Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, “Love or perish.” Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- “The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.”
- “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Do you think there is truth about this as one of the quotes from Martin Luther King?
- “We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.”
- “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.”
- “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
- “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
- “I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”
- “The time is always right to do what is right.”
- “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” This is one of the best quotes from Martin Luther King Jr!
- “All we say to America is, ‘Be true to what you said on paper.’ If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.”
- “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
- “A lie cannot live.”
- “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
- “There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”
- “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.”
Which of these quotes from Martin Luther King Jr are you favorites? Let me know in the comments!