"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Strength to Love, 1963. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God.
The inscription currently reads: "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." The phrase is chiseled into one side of a massive block of granite that includes King's likeness emerging from the stone.
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present." "The truth is found when men are free to pursue it." "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
2. “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.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't miss these patience quotes that will remind you that all good things take time.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. Juvenal. All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. Baruch Spinoza. I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.
Success quotes are inspirational sayings that motivate people to work hard and achieve goals. For example “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey and “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse. Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right. Part of my act is meant to shake you up.
King said, "Ben, play "Precious Lord" in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty." Those were the last words he spoke. He was killed by a gunshot wound.
The last words of Dr. Martin Luther King were utterly in character. “Be sure to sing Blessed Lord tonight — and sing it well,” he told a colleague as a sniper's bullet exploded in his face in Memphis, Tennessee.
Popularly known as the "I have a Dream" speech, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced the Federal government to take more direct actions to more fully realize racial equality.
