There are only three people in the American history who are honored with a federal holiday in their remembrance. Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus and Martin Luther King Jr. Columbus being the father of nation sort of personality, while Abraham being the most influential president and who removed the shackles of slavery. Martin Luther King Jr day falling on 15th January is celebrated in remembrance of one more great leader who fought for great cause of eradicating racial discrimination prevailing in the society.
Martin Luther King Jr was a great orator and his I have a dream speech is one of the best oration in the history of America. Apart from that he had so many influential quotes that a small book might not suffice to describe it. Today we have chosen best 31 quotes of King in this article. You can download these images and send to your friends and families. Let us not forget the greatest hero who gave his life for the noble cause of removing racial discrimination from the society.
31 best quotes of Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about thing that matter.
I have a dream that my four 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.
The ultimate tragedy is not oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
We are not makers of the history, we are made by history.
If you can't fly, then run.
If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl,
But by all means, keep moving!
Lighting makes no sound until it strikes.
Education without morals is like a ship without a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Faith is taking the first step when you don't see the whole staircase.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it's the presence of the justice.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
In the end, we will remember not the words of your enemies, but the silence of our friends.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.
I say to you today, my friends, so 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.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"
Darkness cannot drive darkness; only light can do that Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Life's most persistent and urggent question is, what are you doing for other?
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The time is always right to do what is right.
We may have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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 accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Not everybody can be famous, But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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.
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