20 Important Life Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.

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We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

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.​

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.
​​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. ​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

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.​

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.

I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.​​
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

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.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

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