In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1964
Some of my favorite quotes from him:
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.
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.
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.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
