Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the world's best examples of perseverance, understanding and love. Thanks to his tireless sacrifices, the world was largely loosed from the strangling grip of racism.
"God called the grandson of a slave on his father’s side, and the grandson of a man born during the Civil War on his mother’s side, and said to him: Martin Luther, speak to America about war and peace; about social justice and racial discrimination; about its obligation to the poor; and about nonviolence as a way of perfecting social change in a world of brutality and war."
- Benjamin Mays, Eulogy of Martin Luther King Jr. April, 1968
3. "God called the grandson of a slave on his father’s side, and the
grandson of a man born during the Civil War on his mother’s
side, and said to him: Martin Luther, speak to America about
war and peace; about social justice and racial discrimination;
about its obligation to the poor; and about nonviolence as a
way of perfecting social change in a world of brutality and war."
- Benjamin Mays, Eulogy of Martin Luther King Jr. April, 1968
4. 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.”
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5. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness: only light can do
that. Hate cannot drive out
hate: only love can do that.”
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6. 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.”
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7. We must accept finite
disappointment, but
never lose infinite hope.”
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9. Only in the darkness
can you see the stars.”
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10. In the end, we will
remember not the words
of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.”
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11. Faith is taking the first step
even when you can’t see
the whole staircase.”
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12. We must build dikes of
courage to hold back
the flood of fear.”
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13. That old law about “an
eye for an eye” leaves
everybody blind.”
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14. No one really knows why
they are alive until they
know what they’d die for.”
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15. We must live together
as brothers or perish
together as fools.”
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16. All labor that uplifts
humanity has dignity and
importance and should
be undertaken with
painstaking excellence.”
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17. Life's most persistent and
urgent question is, 'What
are you doing for others?'”
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18. 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.”
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19. Whatever your life's work is,
do it well. A man should do
his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn
could do it no better.”
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