My Top 10 Quotes from Dr Martin Luther King.

Published by mantistm at June 12, 2017

My Top 10 Quotes from Dr Martin Luther King that will inspire your consciousness for the rest of your life.

He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights movement in the State using the tactics of nonviolence based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi from India. Dr Martin Luther King has created some of the most memorable quotes and heart feeling words that will inspire your consciousness for the rest of your life.

Here is my selection of his quotes I considered my top 10 best.

1. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

2. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

4. 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.

5. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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

7. 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?’

8. The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

9. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?

10. Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

_Dr Martin Luther King