Martin Luther King Jr Day

We remember a great man today.  In his honor, here are a few quotes left to us by Brother King. 

“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.