16 Jan 25 Martin Luther King Quotes
Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
To celebrate a great man with vision and foresight.
Here are a few of Dr. King’s words –
- “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.”
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.”
- “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
- “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
- “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.”
- “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
- “Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.”
- “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
- “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
- “I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
- “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
- “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
- “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
- “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
- “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.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”
- “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
- “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
- “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 develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
- “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
Best,
Dr. Flo
Dr. ‘Flo Falayi is a Management Consultant and Leadership Coach enabling, empowering and developing current and next generation leaders for the future. The Founder of The Hybrid Leadership Institute (NGO) and referred to as The Hybrid Leader™- American Born, British Educated, and Nigerian Raised.
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