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Today is the national holiday in honor of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Born the son and grandson of ministers, he grew up to also become a Baptist minister and a social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States beginning in the mid-1950s.
Dr. King is best known for heading the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, for playing a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He will also be remembered for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among a myriad of other honors.
This champion of racial equality, non-violence and peace would have turned 87 this year, but was tragically gunned down and assassinated 48 years ago on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN.
Although he is no longer with us, his legacy lives on in our memories through his words. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
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DJ, Thanks so much for sharing those quotes!
Several years ago, I began a running tab of memorable quotes by Dr. King and other great American thinkers who had also been men/women of action.
Suffice it to say, you have a few quotes by Dr. King on your list that I didn't have…until Now.
Btw- If I may take this opportunity to share?
Earlier today I stumbled onto a piece written by Juan Williamsn in 2011 about The Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King's contribution to that noble cause. More specifically, Juan's piece centered on his past interviews of Thurgood Marshall "the liberal legal giant who became first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court" _and how Marshall (a Black liberal civil rights icon in his own right) viewed Dr. King's methods for achieving Equal Rights.
I found Juan's piece to be quite a revelation because heretofore, I had not been aware of Marshall's views on King.
Excerpts:
“Thurgood Marshall had disdained King’s methods, calling him an ‘opportunist’ and ‘first rate rabble-rouser,’”
Re: King’s suggestion that street protests could help advance desegregation
Marshall replied that school desegregation was men’s work and should not be entrusted to children. King, he said, was ‘a boy on a man’s errand.’” […]
Marshall worked to achieve racial equality by ending laws that discriminated against Americans in schools, in playgrounds, housing, on juries and at work. And he told (Juan) over the course of months of interviews of his differences with King. “I used to have a lot of fights with Martin about his the theory.” […]
Juan further wrote:
Marshall said in one interview as we discussed King’s street protest tactics. “I didn’t believe in that. I thought you had the right to disobey the law and you have the right to go to jail for it.” In the same interview, Marshall conceded that King had tremendous influence. “He came up at the right time,” he said. “I think he was great – as a leader. As an organizer, he wasn’t worth s—t..He was a great speaker…but as for getting the work done, he was not too good at that…All he did was dump all his legal work on us (the NAACP) including the bills. And that was all right with him so long as he didn’t have to pay the bills.”
In those interviews I learned that there were times when Marshall deeply resented King’s fame – particularly when Martin Luther King Jr. Day was made a federal holiday. […]
Juan Concluded:
The left often has a simplistic view of the civil rights movement as monolithic. The truth is that Marshall and King represented very different approaches to ending the bitter history of segregation. Marshall favored using the law while King favored bold demonstrations to gain media attention.
History tells us that both the demonstrators and the lawyers played vital roles in bringing about the end of segregation in America. […]
Source: FoxNews.com