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Let's build bridges, not walls.

Let's build bridges, not walls.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wall, Bridges, Assertive

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Way, Civil Rights, Causes
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom, Peace, Kings
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life, Motivational, Respect
Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happy Life, Life Is, Productive

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stars, Winning, Sun
"What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, projects.seattletimes.com. October 26, 1967.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship, Wisdom, Kings
"The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage, Integrity, Destiny
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beautiful, Hate, Cancer
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eye, Differences, Dreamer

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Motivational, Change

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Faith, Peace
"50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education, Teacher, Teaching
Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring
"This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vanity, Morality, Asks

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Honor, Work Related, Wells
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.26, Beacon Press

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Inspirational, Marriage

Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Song, Stars, Children

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, Dreamer

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Betrayal, Silence, Neutrality
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Beautiful, Hate
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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