Martin Luther King Jr. not only received a Nobel Peace Prize in addition to numerous other awards his life matched his message of nonviolence. His message is still one that every day we have to fight to pass on to our youth. In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day listed below are 10 very powerful quotes that you might not have heard but that will provoke your thinking. –joi pearson @joiapearson
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
“The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“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.”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
