25 MOST INSPIRING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR QUOTES

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr day!

Today, 18th January, 2016 is Martin Luther King Junior day.  This day is celebrated every 3rd Monday of the month of January, a day close to his birth day which  was on the 15th of January 1929.

Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist Minister, humanitarian, activist and a leader in the African-American Civil Rights movement,a movement whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against Africans Americans. In 1964 he won the Nobel peace prize for his role in the movement. 

He was assassinated in April 1968, but continues to be remembered as one of the greatest African- American leaders in history. Among the speeches he's most  remembered for is his 1963,"I have a dream speech" which not only resonated throughout the United States but also  across the whole world.

His legacy still lives on, through his speeches and quotes. Here are 25 of his most inspiring quotes along with some of my favorite.

1. "An individual has not started living until he can rise above and narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. "The quality, not the longevity of  one's life is what is important."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
6. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."~ Martin Luther King Jr.
7. "We will have to repent this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
8. "I have a dream that my four little 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" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. "Life's most persistent  and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. "The time is always right to do what is right"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
11. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that's the role of true education."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. "I have decided to stick with love.  Hate is to great a burden to bare." Martin Luther King, Jr.
13. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of courage and controversy"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
16. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
17. "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.  He who is void 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"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
19. "That old law about 'an eye for an eye', leaves everybody blind"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
20. "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.  A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
21. "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.     
22.  "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together"~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
23. "Whatever your life's work is, do it well.  A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
24. "If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."~ Martin Luther King, Jr
25. "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.  We have guided missiles and misguided men."~ Martin Luther King, Jr.