1. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
2. “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.”
3. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
4. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
5. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We must all learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
6. “Love is the most powerful force for change.”
7. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
8. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
9. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
10. “The future is not something that is just going to happen to us. The future is something that we create. Every day, we’re making choices that are creating our future.”
11. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
12. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
13. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
14. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, keep moving forward.”
15. “The only thing that is impossible is to prove that something is impossible.”
16. “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
17. “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.”
18. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
19. “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
20. “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
21. “The measure of a man is not how he stands with others, but how he stands alone.”
22. “Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”
23. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
24. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
25. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
26. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
27. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We must all learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
28. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
29. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
30. “Love is the most powerful force for change.”
31. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
32. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
33. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
34. “The future is not something that is just going to happen to us. The future is something that we create