My Favorite Dr. King Quotes #MLKDay

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Day!

I am challenged by words of wisdom and find significant value in browsing, thinking and pondering upon these wise words/quotes quite frequently. The wise words of Dr King remain equally as important today as they were in the past. Here are my favorite quotes, do let me know which ones you like as well.

1. "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
2. "All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
3. "Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
4. "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life;love illuminates it.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
5. "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
6. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." - Martin Luther King Jr.
7. "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
8. "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
9. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
10. "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
11. "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
12. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
13. "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
14. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
15. "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
16. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King Jr., Letter
17. "The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society." - Martin Luther King Jr.
18. "Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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." - Martin Luther King Jr.
19. "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - Martin Luther King Jr.
20. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
21. "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
22. "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." - Martin Luther King Jr.

'Flo Falayi, Ph.D.(c), PMP is the President of Hybrid Leaders Inc., a consulting and coaching practice focused on empowering hybrid leaders. Flo’s doctoral research is on Hybrid Leaders which focuses on the distinct leadership styles of bi-cultural global leaders and managers.

Flo is a hybrid- "American Born, British Trained and Nigerian Raised" leadership and relationship consultant, speaker and coach. He was inducted into the prestigious Edward Bouchet Honor Society, Yale University in 2014.
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