Happy Birthday MLK Jr.

Erica Contreras chair of the YDA Minority Caucus sent these inspirational quotes today:

Enjoy these quotes while we use this day to remember Dr. King, and all civil rights leaders...

"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole
staircase."

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love
harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is
stronger than evil triumphant. "

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells
him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its
injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

- More quotations on: [Laws]
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."

- More quotations on: [Silence]
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can
stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."

"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. "

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method
is love."

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

- More quotations on: [Silence]
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper
darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out
hate: only love can do that."

"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between
injustice and immorality."

"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one
wise man forgets himself into immortality."

- More quotations on: [Immortality]
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as
fools."

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong,
you cannot be too conservative."

- More quotations on: [Conservatives] [Liberals]
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined
nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings
us face to face with another problem."

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns
those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore,
brothers."

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral
questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression
and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind
must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is
love."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- More quotations on: [Justice]
"The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and
principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed
the mores of society."

"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a
dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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.'"

- More quotations on: [Dreams]
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will
die for, he isn't fit to live."

"...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not
get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a
people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not
worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."

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

- More quotations on: [Stupidity] [Ignorance]
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men."

- More quotations on: [Science]
"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."