Quotes & Videos
Quotes about Martin Luther King Jr. and Other Civil Rights Icons
Quote and Video for 1/11/2021
"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."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for 1/12/2021
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for 1/13/2021
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for 1/14/2021
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for 1/15/2021
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for 1/16/21
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for 1/17/21
"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."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote and Video for MLK Day
"All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.