11 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes for the Classroom
- “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.”
- “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
- “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.”
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
- “The time is always right to do what is right.”
- “I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
